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In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett
rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by
investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and
immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism
and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with
carving out space for individuals in the story of the working
class, Barrett examines all aspects of individuals' subjective
experiences, from their personalities, relationships, and emotions
to their health and intellectual pursuits. Barrett's subjects
include American communists, "blue-collar cosmopolitans"-such as
well-read and well-traveled porters, sailors, and hoboes-and
figures in early twentieth-century anarchist subculture. He also
details the process of the Americanization of immigrant workers via
popular culture and their development of class and racial
identities, asking how immigrants learned to think of themselves as
white. Throughout, Barrett enriches our understanding of working
people's lives, making it harder to objectify them as nameless cogs
operating within social and political movements. In so doing, he
works to redefine conceptions of work, migration, and radical
politics.
In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett
rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by
investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and
immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism
and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with
carving out space for individuals in the story of the working
class, Barrett examines all aspects of individuals' subjective
experiences, from their personalities, relationships, and emotions
to their health and intellectual pursuits. Barrett's subjects
include American communists, "blue-collar cosmopolitans"-such as
well-read and well-traveled porters, sailors, and hoboes-and
figures in early twentieth-century anarchist subculture. He also
details the process of the Americanization of immigrant workers via
popular culture and their development of class and racial
identities, asking how immigrants learned to think of themselves as
white. Throughout, Barrett enriches our understanding of working
people's lives, making it harder to objectify them as nameless cogs
operating within social and political movements. In so doing, he
works to redefine conceptions of work, migration, and radical
politics.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of
American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban
American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and
workplaces of the American city. This process of "Americanization
from the bottom up" was deeply shaped, Barrett argues, by the
Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to
Boston's North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans
found it nearly impossible to avoid the Irish. While historians
have emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream
institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the
original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching
American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast. By 1900, there
were more people of Irish descent in New York City than in Dublin;
more in the United States than in all of Ireland. But in the late
nineteenth century, the sources of immigration began to shift, to
southern and eastern Europe and beyond. Whether these newcomers
wanted to save their souls, get a drink, find a job, or just take a
stroll in the neighborhood, they had to deal with Irish Americans.
Barrett reveals how the Irish vacillated between a progressive and
idealistic impulse toward their fellow immigrants and a parochial
defensiveness stemming from the hostility earlier generations had
faced upon their own arrival in America. They imparted racist
attitudes toward African Americans; they established ethnic
"deadlines" across city neighborhoods; they drove other immigrants
from docks, factories, and labor unions. Yet the social teachings
of the Catholic Church, a sense of solidarity with the oppressed,
and dark memories of poverty and violence in both Ireland and
America ushered in a wave of progressive political activism that
eventually embraced other immigrants. Drawing on contemporary
sociological studies and diaries, newspaper accounts, and Irish
American literature, The Irish Way illustrates how the interactions
between the Irish and later immigrants on the streets, on the
vaudeville stage, in Catholic churches, and in workplaces helped
forge a multi-ethnic American identity that has a profound legacy
in the USA today.
Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long
worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in
this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for
engaged scholarship in the United States and abroad. A diverse
roster of contributors discuss how participation in current labor
and social struggles guides their campus and community organizing,
public history initiatives, teaching, mentoring, and other
activities. They also explore the role of research and scholarship
in social change, while acknowledging that intellectual labor
complements but never replaces collective action and movement
building. Contributors: Kristen Anderson, Daniel E. Atkinson, James
R. Barrett, Susan Roth Breitzer, Susan Chandler, Sam Davies, Dennis
Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Colin Gordon, Michael Innis-Jimenez,
Stephanie Luce, Joseph A. McCartin, John W. McKerley, Matthew M.
Mettler, Stephen Meyer, David Montgomery, Kim E. Nielsen, Peter
Rachleff, Ralph Scharnau, Jennifer Sherer, Shelton Stromquist,
Emily E. LB. Twarog, and John Williams-Searle.
The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community
in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix
of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture,
engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated
dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web
browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in
women's education and wheelchair accessibility have helped shape
the university's mission into a double helix of innovation and
real-world change. These essays explore the university's celebrated
accomplishments and historic legacy, candidly assessing both its
successes and its setbacks. Experts and students tell the
eye-opening stories of campus legends and overlooked game-changers,
of astonishing technical and social invention, of incubators of
progress as diverse as the Beckman Institute and Ebertfest.
Contributors: James R. Barrett, George O. Batzli, Claire Benjamin,
Jeffrey D. Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A. Dick, Poshek Fu,
Marcelo H. Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia
Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael
Morrissey, Bryan E. Norwood, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Leslie J. Reagan,
Susan M. Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U.
Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F. Tracy, and Joy Ann
Williamson-Lott.
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