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Working-Class Americanism
Gary Gerstle
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Description for Working-Class Americanism
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBER; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFS; JHBL; KCZ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089119
SKU
V9780691089119
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About Gary Gerstle
Gary Gerstle is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland. College Park. He is the author of the forthcoming American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (see page 7 in this catalog).
Reviews for Working-Class Americanism
"The transformation of ethnically insular workers into passionate American activists is an important story, which Gerstle recounts with unusual subtlety... No one has explored the meaning of Americanism to workers with more intelligence and insight."
Alan Brinkley, New York Review of Books "Scintillating... [Gerstle] uses the method [of social history] with striking originality to tackle the thorny questions of Americanism."
Alan Dawley, ... Read more
Alan Brinkley, New York Review of Books "Scintillating... [Gerstle] uses the method [of social history] with striking originality to tackle the thorny questions of Americanism."
Alan Dawley, ... Read more