Rethinking U.S. Labor History Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009

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Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history.

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Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Current Research
Memoirs of an Invalid: James Miller and the Making of the British-American Empire in the Seven Years'	p. 25
Losing the Middle Ground: Strikebreakers and Labor Protest on the Southwestern Railroads	p. 54
Rethinking Working-Class Politics in Comparative-Transnational Contexts	p. 82
No Common Creed: White Working-Class Protestants and the CIO's Operation Dixie	p. 111
A. Philip Randolph, Black Anticommunism, and the Race Question	p. 137
The Contextualization of a Moment in CIO History: The Mine-Mill Battle in the Connecticut Brass Valley during World War II	p. 168
Organizing the Carework Economy: When the Private Becomes Public	p. 192
Solvents of Solidarity: Political Economy, Collective Action, and the Crisis of Organized Labor, 1968-2005	p. 217
New Directions in U.S. Labor History
Sensing Labor: The Stinking Working-Class after the Cultural Turn	p. 243
Re-Imagining Labor: Gender and New Directions in Labor and Working-Class History	p. 266
The Limits of Work and the Subject of Labor History	p. 289
Resources
Labor and Working-Class History Chronology	p. 307
Resources	p. 317
Further Reading	p. 320
Index	p. 329
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