WORKING-CLASS AMERICANISM by Gary Gerstle ( 9780691089119 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WORKING-CLASS AMERICANISM
THE POLITICS OF LABOR IN A TEXTILE CITY, 1914-1960

By:

Gary Gerstle

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ISBN 10:

0691089116

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9780691089119

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 March, 2002

Edition:

With a New preface by the author

Pages:

372

Description:

An interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism. It challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of 'Americanism' and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism.

Synopsis:

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.

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