| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) |
| Contents |
Labor and the search for American socialism -- The exceptionalism of American labor -- The intellectual's role in the workers' movement -- Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic" -- The promise of insurgent labor -- New lefts, new insurgents -- The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat -- The historian's search for power |
| Summary |
"Confronting American Labor traces the development of the American left, from the Depression era through the Cold War, by examining four representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult question of labor's role in society. Since the time of Marx, leftists have raised over and over the question of how an intelligentsia might participate in a movement carried out by the working class. Their modus operandi was to champion those who suffered injustice at the hands of the powerful. From the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century, this meant a focus on the industrial worker."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor movement -- United States -- History
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Socialism -- United States
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New Left -- United States -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor movement
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New Left
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Socialism
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Arbeiterbewegung
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Geschichte
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002012290 |
| ISBN |
0826263577 |
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9780826263575 |
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0826214207 |
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9780826214201 |
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