Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

by Philip S. Foner and David R. Roediger

Book Overview

Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313260621
• ISBN13: 9780313260629
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"