Details

Subject(s)

• Montgomery, David 1927-2011 [Browse]
• Working class—United States—History [Browse]
• Labor movement—United States—History [Browse]

Editor

• Stromquist, Shelton, 1943- [Browse]
• Barrett, James R., 1950- [Browse]

Series

• Working class in American history [More in this series]
• The working class in American history

Summary note

"A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection of Montgomery's most important published and unpublished articles and essays draws from the historian's entire five-decade career. Taken together, the writings trace the development of Montgomery's distinct voice and approach while providing a crucial window into an era that changed the ways scholars and the public understood working people's place in American history. Three overarching themes and methods emerge from these essays: that class provided a rich reservoir of ideas and strategies for workers to build movements aimed at claiming their democratic rights -- that capital endured with the power to manage the contours of economic life and the capacities of the state but that workers repeatedly and creatively mounted challenges to the terms of life and work dictated by capital -- and that Montgomery's method grounded his gritty empiricism and the conceptual richness of his analysis in the intimate social relations of production and of community, neighborhood, and family life"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2024).

Contents

• David Montgomery : a biographical sketch
• The Great Northern Strike of 1894 : when Gene Debs beat Jim Hill (1958)
• The working classes of the pre-industrial American city, 1780-1830 (1968)
• Social attitudes of American workers in the 1840s (unpublished, c. 1971)
• The shuttle and the cross : weavers and artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844 (1972)
• Wage labor, bondage, and citizenship in nineteenth-century America (1995)
• Strikes in nineteenth-century America (1980) 117
• Labor and the republic in industrial America, 1860-1920 (1980)
• Racism, immigrants, and political reform (2001)
• Trade union practice and the origins of syndicalist theory in the United States (unpublished, 1969/1972)
• Workers' control of machine production in the nineteenth century (1976)
• The "new unionism" and the transformation of workers' consciousness in America, 1909-22 (1974)
• Thinking about American workers in the 1920s (1987)
• Labor and the political leadership of New Deal America (1994)
• Working people's response to past depressions (2014)
• Empire, race, and working-class mobilizations (2000)
• Workers' movements in the United States confront imperialism : the Progressive Era experience (2008)
• What's happening to the American worker (1970)
• Foreword to on strike for respect (1988)
• Yesterday's wisdom : changing situations and new initiatives in the American labor movement (unpublished, c. 1990)
• Challenges facing historians of the working class (unpublished, c. 2000).

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ISBN

• 0252056795 (electronic book)
• 9780252056796 (electronic book)

LCCN

2023054085

OCLC

1415850941

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