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You Work Tomorrow
John . Ed(S): Marsh
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Description for You Work Tomorrow
Paperback. An anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. This work provides a glimpse into the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published in union newspapers during the turbulent 1930s. It offers an opportunity for you to learn how an earlier generation of workers confronted and challenged injustice and inequality. Editor(s): Marsh, John. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
This is the first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. ""You Work Tomorrow"" provides a glimpse into a relatively unknown aspect of American literary and labor history - the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published in union newspapers during the turbulent 1930s. Members of all unions - including auto-workers, musicians, teachers, tenant farmers, garment workers, artists, and electricians - wrote thousands of poems during this period that described their working, living, and political conditions. From this wealth of material, John Marsh has chosen poetry that is both aesthetically appealing and historically relevant, dispelling the myth that labor ... Read more
This is the first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. ""You Work Tomorrow"" provides a glimpse into a relatively unknown aspect of American literary and labor history - the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published in union newspapers during the turbulent 1930s. Members of all unions - including auto-workers, musicians, teachers, tenant farmers, garment workers, artists, and electricians - wrote thousands of poems during this period that described their working, living, and political conditions. From this wealth of material, John Marsh has chosen poetry that is both aesthetically appealing and historically relevant, dispelling the myth that labor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Class: Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472050000
SKU
V9780472050000
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About John . Ed(S): Marsh
John Marsh is Assistant Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for You Work Tomorrow
An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time as much as it does to its own era. - Nicholas Coles, University of Pittsburgh