The Immigrant Left in the United States (American Labor History (Dis)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791428842 ISBN 13: 9780791428849

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

A transnational social history of immigrant-group involvement in radical activities in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America that provides missing links between the immigration experience, the neighborhood, the workplace, politics, and culture.

This book investigates the role immigrant radicals have played in U.S. society from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. A valuable contribution to the history of the American Left, it makes use of a wealth of material from immigrants whose everyday speech and intellectual discourse were not in the English language.

The social-history scholarship that informs the essays is innovative in method and purpose. Articles on Mexican-American, German, Jewish, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Ukrainian, Greek, Arab, and Haitian immigrants supply missing conceptual links between the immigration experience, the neighborhood and the workplace, and political, labor, and cultural institutions. Taken together, they offer a model study in transnational history, one of the most important new fields of historical inquiry. Included are essays by Douglas Monroy, Stan Nadel, Michael Topp, Mary E. Cygan, Maria Woroby, Michael W. Suleiman, Robert G. Lee, Carole Charles, Van Gosse, and the editors.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Buhle directs the Oral History of the American Left project, Tamiment Library, New York University, and has written or edited 21 books, including Marxism in the United States; Encyclopedia of the American Left; The American Radical; and C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary. Dan Georgakas teaches in the Labor Education and Advancement Project of Queens College. He is author of Greek America at Work; associate editor of the newspaper The GreekAmerican; and coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left and New Directions in Greek American Studies.

From the Back Cover

This book investigates the role immigrant radicals have played in U.S. society from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791428842
• ISBN 13: 9780791428849
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 349
• Editor: Buhle Paul, Georgakas Dan