Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s

by George Lipsitz

Book Overview

Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063945
• ISBN13: 9780252063947
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This is a terrific book. Lipsitz at his best - smart, innovative, readable.