Working-Class Americanism : : The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 /

Working-Class Americanism : : The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 / / Gary Gerstle.

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gerstle, Gary,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2002
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (373 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and tables
  • Preface to the Princeton edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Ethnictown, 1875-1929
  • 1 The French Canadians
  • 2 The Franco-Belgians
  • Part II The emergence of an industrial union, 1929-1936
  • 3 Beginnings, 1929-1934
  • 4 City wide mobilization, 1934-1936
  • Part III Working-class heyday, 1936-1941
  • 5 "A new, progressive Americanism"
  • 6 Ethnic-style unionism
  • 7 Ethnic renaissance
  • Part IV The crucial decade - and after, 1941-1960
  • 8 The struggle for union power, 1941-1946
  • 9 "Be American!": refashioning a political language, 1944-1946
  • 10 The failure of two dreams, 1946-1960
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Locals organized by ITU, 1932-1955
  • Appendix B: A note on union sources and a list of interviewees
  • Index

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