Working-class Americanism : the politics of labor in a textile city, 1914-1960

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Working-class Americanism : the politics of labor in a textile city, 1914-1960

Gary Gerstle

(Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history)

Cambridge University Press, 1991, c1989

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In this interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, the author 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.

Table of Contents

  • PART I Ethnictown, 1875-1929: the French Canadians
  • the Franco-Belgians. Part 2 The emergence of an industrial union, 1929-1936: beginnings, 1932-1934
  • citywide mobilization, 1934-1936. Part 3 Working-class heyday, 1936-1941: "A new, progressive Americanism"
  • ethnic-style unionism
  • ethnic renaissance. Part 4 The crucial decade - and after, 1941-1960
  • the struggle for union power, 1941-1946
  • "Be American!" - refashioning Americanism, 1944-1946
  • the failure of two dreams, 1946-1960. Appendix: locals organized by ITU, 1932-1955.

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