Between the Hills and the Sea (Literature of American Labor) - Softcover

Gilden, K. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875461549 ISBN 13: 9780875461540

Publisher: ILR Press, 2017

Synopsis

Between the Hills and the Sea by Katya and Bert Gilden vividly portrays the disillusionment of working-class idealists in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Originally published in 1971, the book is an absorbing novel. It also provides an authentic portrait of the social dynamics in a factory town and the effects of McCarthyism on working people's lives.

About this title

About the Author:

The late David Montgomery was Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of several books, including The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925.

Review:

"Ultrasensitive to questions of gender, race, ethnicity, family, local politics, standards of living, shop-floor conditions, and class, it should be enormously helpful in labor history classes as a spur to research."

(Ronald W. Schatz, Wesleyan University)

"This is a unique book... well written, lively, and insightful, especially with regard to the dynamics of intraunion rivalry, the lives of union activists, and the dynamics of the shop floor."

(Mark McColloch, University of Pittsburgh)

"Between the Hills and the Sea, as perhaps no other novel of the era, carries forward the best of the proletarian novel to the breakdown of the Left and illuminates the contradictions facing the rank-and-file of the movement."

(Mary Jo Buhle, author of Women and the American Left)

"A remarkable novel of postwar hopes and fifties confusion. No other novel so effectively captures the fear, doubt, and heroism of ordinary people caught up in a colossal, corporate power play."

(Peter Gilmore, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America)

About this edition

• Publisher: ILR Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0875461549
• ISBN 13: 9780875461540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 566