Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8643484
E. Boris
These are powerful accounts of starting from home and coming to labor history Emma Amador, Max Fraser, Naomi R Williams, and Stacey L Smith underscore the living pasts of a field once pronounced as dead that increasingly has become as central to the historical project as the invisibilized working class that has emerged as essential during the COVID-19 pandemic In recounting the origins of their research, these new voices reinforce the link between scholarship and social commentary in ways that further extend the boundaries of the field Originally presented during the 2019 LAWCHA conference at a session organized by this journal, these personal narratives share major themes They show a continual expansion of the subject of labor history, providing fresh perspectives on who counts as working class and what constitutes work They belong to a larger trend of scrambling categories at
这些都是关于从家开始进入劳动史的有力描述Emma Amador、Max Fraser、Naomi R Williams，史黛西·L·史密斯（Stacey L Smith）强调了一个曾经被宣布为死亡的领域的生活史，这个领域越来越成为历史项目的核心，就像在新冠肺炎大流行期间出现的隐形工人阶级一样，这些新的声音加强了学术和社会评论之间的联系，从而进一步扩展了该领域的边界。这些个人叙事最初是在2019年LAWCHA会议上由本杂志组织的一次会议上提出的，它们有着共同的主题。它们显示了劳动史主题的不断扩展，为谁是工人阶级以及什么构成工作提供了新的视角他们属于一个更大的混乱类别的趋势
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8349501
Brian K. Obach
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114769
T. Juravich
This paper traces the history of the song “Bread and Roses” to examine labor culture and the role of song in the labor movement. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, “Bread and Roses” was included in several of the first generation song books produced by unions that reflected an expansive and inclusive labor culture closely connected with the Left. With the ascendance of business unionism and the blacklisting of the Left after the war, labor culture took a heavy blow, and labor songbooks became skeletons of the full-bodied versions they had once been. Unions began to see singing not as part of the process of social change but as a vehicle to bring people together, and songs such as “Bread and Roses” and other more class-based songs were jettisoned in favor of a few labor standards and American sing-along songs. “Bread and Roses” was born anew to embody a central concept in the women’s movement and rode the wave of new music, art, and film that were part of new social movements and new constituencies that challenged business unionism and reshaped union culture in the 1980s.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114733
J. Gregory
Is the American Left reemerging as a political force? Suddenly there are socialists in Congress, socialists on city councils, socialists in the Democratic Party, and much of the media has taken up the question of whether the Democratic Party is swinging to the left. If we are indeed seeing a new surge to the left and new phase of American radicalism, it would not be the first time. This is something that has happened repeatedly in the past century. The particulars are new, but the cycles of movement reinvention appear to be a feature of American politics, one that historians have not adequately explored. American radicalism has been a vexing subject for many years. It was not long ago that historians could do little more than grieve, framing the subject as a story of failures and asking whynot questions. Why was there no revolution? Why wasn’t the US Left more like the European Left or the Canadian Left? Why did the Socialist Party fall apart? Why did the New Left fade? No longer. Books by Paul Buhle, Richard Flacks, Michael Kazin, Doug Rossinow, Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps, Rhodri JeffreyJones, and Dawson Barrett have changed the tone, examining accomplishments as well as limitations, arguing that the Left has initiated significant transformations, especially involving the rights of previously excluded populations, while a century of radical action has also changed the dimensions of the civic sphere and democratic practice by fostering a culture of activism. The newer books do so in
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114854
G. D. Jong
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114745
Shaun S. Nichols
Exceptionalism has long defined our understanding of the rise of progressive politics in the early twentieth-century United States. While industrialized European nations blazed the path of social democracy, in the United States, it is argued, “progressivism” merely legitimized middle-class cultural hegemony, social engineering, and the subversion of working-class power. In this era, however, social reform was a distinctly state-led phenomenon, only rarely taken up by the federal Congress. As such, by analyzing labor protest at the level of the state—in this case, Washington—a different interpretation emerges. American “progressivism” was neither exceptionally repressive nor of little interest to labor. In fact, espousing a language of progress, the common good, and the duty of the state to promote “social harmony,” Washington workers actively drew on “progressive” ideas in their struggles to tame the excesses of industrial capitalism. This ideology of “labor progressivism” became the foundation for unprecedented working-class power.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790431
Jordan B. Smith
{"title":"Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, by Sasha Turner","authors":"Jordan B. Smith","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66020149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790395
David Palmer
{"title":"Working-Class Nationalism and Internationalism until 1945: Essays in Global Labour History, ed. by Steven Parfitt, Lorenzo Costaguta, Matthew Kidd, and John Tiplady","authors":"David Palmer","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790455
B. Kelly
{"title":"The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels","authors":"B. Kelly","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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