Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States - Softcover

Mandel, Bernard

 
9780252074288: Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252074289 ISBN 13: 9780252074288
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists

Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers North and South, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled Northern workers to find their own way into the antislavery ranks.

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About the Author

Bernard Mandel was an independent scholar who also published a biography of Samuel Gompers. Brian Kelly is a senior lecturer in the School of History at Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. He is the author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252074289
ISBN 13 
9780252074288
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256