The Workers' Movement in the United States, 1879–1885 - Softcover

Waltershausen, August Sartorius Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521026083 ISBN 13: 9780521026086

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852-1938) was an eminent German economist who visited the United States at the beginning of the 1880s and wrote a series of articles on the U.S. labor movement. His training in the historical school of economics provided him with a different perspective from that of laissez-faire economists or socialists of his time. The articles, presented in this book with two essays, provide rich insights into the character of American workers' organizations as they recovered from the 1870s depression, before the establishment of strong national institutions.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Review:

"...makes a notable contribution to the collective project of understanding America's peculiar labor politics." Gerald Friedman, The Journal of American History

"As valuable as the specific information offered by Sartorius is, what stands out most in The Workers' Movement in the United States is his ability to capture the range of goals, tactics, impulses, and motivations that animated American workers across regions and a multitude of trades. The publication of this selection of Sartorius' articles makes available to English-language readers a rarely consulted but extraordinarily rich and insightful study of American trade union and working-class perspectives and practices in the late-19th century." Eric Arnesen, Labor History

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521026083
• ISBN 13: 9780521026086
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Montgomery David, Linden Marcel Van Der