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Adds significant new facts to these TUEL years and their import.
More on the miners, Ladies' Garment workers, Fur workers,
Amalgameted Clothing, Auto, Textile, Maritime and Agricultural
workers; Labor and Fascism; Sacco-Vanzetti frameup; Black Workers;
American T.U. delegation to Soviet Union; Changes in trade union
policy.
Here are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David
Hilliard and Fred Hampton, along with Kathleen Cleaver and other
Panther women. They tell of the party's court battles and
acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure,
the police, violence and education; as well as songs, poems and
political cartoons. This is the real story of The Black Panthers.
The book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Black Panther
Party, without media or political input. Black Panthers Speak
allows readers to judge the movement for themselves.
Henry Ford's $5 day; strikes in Arizona mines, Youngstown OH;
Bayonne NJ; NY City Transit strike, 1916; Garment workers; Women
workers; RR workers and the 8-hour day; Black workers on the eve of
WWI, and more.
The legend of IWW activist and songwriter Joe Hill, brought to life
through his letters, songs and writings. Radical songwriter and
organiser Joe Hill was murdered by the capitalist state in 1915,
but his songs continue to inspire working-class activists and
musicians. In The Letters of Joe Hill, assembled by radical
historian Philip Foner with new material by Alexis Buss, readers
are provided a window into the political reflections and personal
struggles behind Hill's legend.
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Vol. 5 (Supplement) 1844-1860 Edited by Philip S. Foner. Writings
and speeches discovered since the publication of the original 4
volumes;
Writings on educational theory, pedagogy, and the relationship
between education and popular democracy.
Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books,
this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships
between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil
War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dailies as well
as from abolitionist journals and the labor press. The voices heard
from include prominent abolitionist leaders, grass roots activists,
representatives of the labor movement, land reformers, and utopian
advocates of universal reform. The book shows labor's response to
such critical episodes as the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the
Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution, and the election of
Abraham Lincoln.
Themes covered include the contrast between wage labor and
chattel slavery, the abolitionists' outreach to white labor, the
views of reformers who held that a universal solution to the labor
question took priority over abolition, the varying responses of
labor activists to the slavery question, and labor's growing role
in the 1850s as a constituent in an antislavery coalition. At the
same time, the book notes the continued presence of racism and
specific instances of friction between white and black workers, as
in the explosive violence of the 1863 New York City Draft Riot.
Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, short stories,
pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, public statements, Supreme Court
decisions and conventions, this documentary history demonstrates
the persistence of a humanist, if not an anti-racist, pulse in
American society in the face of discriminatory government policy
and prevalent anti-Asian ideology and treatment. Focusing on
support for the rights of Japanese and Chinese immigrants and their
descendants, the book traces a 130-year period, culminating with
the governmental redress for survivors of the Japanese evacuation
and internment during WWII. Foner and Rosenberg highlight
expressions from the clergy, the labor movement, the abolitionists,
and public figures such as Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner,
Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, Norman Thomas and
Carey McWilliams. It includes material never before published
showing Black support for Asian rights and demonstrates the
consistency of the Industrial Worker of the World's solidarity with
Chinese and Japanese-American workers. It is also the first work to
give serious treatment to clergymen's efforts against anti-Asian
discrimination.
After the introduction, Foner discusses law and dissent. The
next four sections are devoted to statements by public figures, the
views of the clergy, the labor movement and African-Americans. The
final section covers relocation and protest. The book provides a
valuable contribution to the debates on American dissent in general
and against racism in particular, the meaning of American
nationality, the criminality of the evacuation and internment of
Japanese-Americans during World War II and the immigration policies
of the United States government.
Our Own Time retells the history of American labor by focusing on
the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day.
It argues that the length of the working day has been the central
issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous
periods of activity, uniting workers along lines of craft, gender
and ethnicity. The authors hold that the workweek is likely again
to take on increased significance as workers face the choice
between a society based on free time and one based on alienated
work and employment.
Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to
shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the
narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history
with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of
contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating
reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the
colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the
working day or week historically has been the central issue raised
by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of
organization. Beginning with a picture of working hours in colonial
America and the early republic, Roediger and Foner then analyze the
ideology of the movement for a ten-hour workday in the early
nineteenth century. They demonstrate that the ten-hour issue was a
key to the dynamism of the Jacksonian labor movement as well as to
the unity of male artisans and female factory workers in the 1840s.
The authors proceed to examine the subsequent demands for an
eight-hour day, which helped to produce the mass labor struggles of
the late nineteenth century and established the American Federation
of Labor as the dominant force in American trade unionism. Chapters
on labor movement defeats following World War I, on the depression
years, and on the lack of progress over the last half-century
complete the study. Our Own Time will be an ideal supplemental text
for courses in U.S. labor and economic history.
This is history as it should be written: massive research and
thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself.
Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies
collections. "Choice"
Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It
pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the
time. . . . A] worthy source of information. "Latin America
ConnexionS"
This noted historian writes in his fluid style about the
sometimes contradictory positions taken by the labor unions and
socialists in response to American intervention in Central America
(long before today's Contras), from the Mexican War of 1846 to the
founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918.
Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three
courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to
teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and
Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and
Washington, D.C.: they each found that racial prejudice is not
limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to
prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they
established, only one--in the nation's capitol--proved more or less
permanent, but all three had a significant impact on American life.
Because they chose to teach black children, Miner, Douglass, and
Crandall all endured persecution and hardship. Foner and Pacheco's
important biographical study portrays three women of unusual
courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women
of nineteenth-century America.
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