In Search of Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture

by Leon Fink

Book Overview

These nine essays by a prominent scholar in American labor history self-consciously evoke the tensions between the worker as historical subject and the historian as outside observer. Encompassing studies of labor culture, strategy, and movement building from the late nineteenth century to the present, In Search of the Working Class also connects the trials of the early labor economists to the conceptual challenges facing today's academic practitioners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063686
• ISBN13: 9780252063688
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"