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
（Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history）
Cambridge University Press, 1991, c1989
- : pbk
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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