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The Meaning of Slavery in the North

The Meaning of Slavery in the North

1st Edition

Edited By Martin H. Blatt, David R. Roediger
August 26, 2016

Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom." This collection of essays focuses on the central role of slavery in the early development of industrialization in the United States...

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order Essays on Labor and Culture

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture

1st Edition

By Paul Buhle
November 18, 2016

This collection brings together the labor and cultural studies of the author over the past 20 years, during which time the fields of social history, women's history, ethnic studies, public history, and oral history have all been transformed. The essays, some rewritten or newly available and the ...

The Education of Women in the United States A Guide to Theory, Teaching, and Research

The Education of Women in the United States: A Guide to Theory, Teaching, and Research

1st Edition

By Averil Evans McClelland
August 26, 2016

This is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the education of girls and women in the United States from the Colonial period to the present. After identifying historical themes in the education of women, beginning in Greece and Rome, and later in medieval and Enlightenment Europe, this ...

Work, Recreation, and Culture Essays in American Labor History

Work, Recreation, and Culture: Essays in American Labor History

1st Edition

Edited By Martin H. Blatt, Martha K. Norkunas
August 04, 2016

The essays in this volume focus on the role of women in the work force. They explore how organized sports, social associations of all kinds and the educational system faced by the children of worker were profoundly linked to work place and community activism. They examine why radical labor ...

A New Labor Movement for the New Century

A New Labor Movement for the New Century

1st Edition

Edited By Gregory Mantsios
May 13, 2016

This collection of original essays offers an inside view of the current state of American unions. Most of the contributors are prominent activists in the AFL-CIO, and their writings assess the state of the movement in the late 1990s....

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