Ronald C. Kent

Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History

Ronald C. Kent; David R. Roediger; Sara Markham

Synopsis:
This contributor volume brings the best work of such established historians as Morris Schappes, Nathan Godfried, and Eric Foner together with the newer voices of Elizabeth Sharpe and Jennifer Bosch. Its eleven essays challenge the boundary between the older, institutional labor history and the more recent social histories of working people. By combining a focus on culture, women's history, and race relations that is characteristic of the best of the latest working-class history with an emphasis on formal protests, leadership, and power, the volume suggests that a truly new labor history will reflect a variety of concerns and draw on diverse inspirations. By placing workers and their organizations convincingly within the context of their culture, the book helps to demonstrate the ways the labor movement has remade this nation and how the nation has shaped the labor movement.

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