Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender From Spanish Florida to the New Immigration (Working in the Americas)

Editor-Prof. Robert Cassanello; Editor-Melanie Shell-Weiss

ISBN 10: 0813032830 / ISBN 13: 9780813032832

Published by University Press Of Florida, 2009

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Hardcover in dust jacket No notes, underlining or highlighting Z4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender From Spanish Florida to the New Immigration (Working in the Americas)
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813032830
• ISBN 13: 9780813032832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

"Not only a fine collection on Florida itself, but also a model of what edited state histories of labor might look like in the future. It is as multiracial (also moving well beyond black and white) and almost as gendered as the experiences of workers themselves. It refuses to separate the histories of slavery and of free labor. Finally it is at times impressively interdisciplinary without any lapses into disciplinary jargon."--David R. Roediger, University of Illinois

 

Florida provides a unique opportunity to explore the history of working men and women within a constantly changing environment. Stretching from the Spanish colonial period through the recent organizing efforts of service and agricultural workers, this collection showcases a broad spectrum of working experiences in a region that has been sorely neglected in many labor histories.

 

The essays in Florida's Working-Class Past pay special attention to gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and social networks. Under the guidance of editors Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss, the contributors offer fresh analyses of labor activism, re-contextualize Indian tribute and slavery within the context of labor history, and examine major themes in labor and working-class history in one place over several centuries.

 

About the Author

Robert Cassanello is assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is on the board of editors for the Florida Historical Quarterly, and was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Melanie Shell-Weiss is  visiting assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and author of Coming to Miami.