The mythical man

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-62

  Montgomery, David ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 56049126477     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: 14716445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547908000161     Document Type: Article

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1. Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca, 1999);
2. Cowie, "Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, '1969-1973," Labor History 43 (August 2002): 257-83.
3. Robert S. and Helen Merrill Lynd, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (New York, 1937), 419-60;
4. Samuel Lubell, Future of American Politics (Third edition, New York, .1965);
5. Richard Oestreicher, "Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940," Journal of American History 74 (March, 1988): 1257-1286.
6. Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (New York, 1996), 306.
7. On the 1950s leap in living standards around the world, see ibid., 257-86.
8. Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public/Private Welfare State (Princeton, 2003);
9. Ellis W. Hawley, New Deal and the Problem of .Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence (Princeton, 1966);
10. Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (New York, 1994);
11. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, 1992);
12. Kenneth Casebeer, "The Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill: American Social Wage, Labor Organization, and Legal Ideology," in Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays, ed. Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King (Baltimore, :1992), 231-59.
13. Horace Huntley and David Montgomery, Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham (Urbana, 2004), 12-24;
14. Ruth Needleman, Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism (Ithaca, 2003);
15. Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Cambridge, MA, 2003);
16. Mario T. García, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, & Identity, 1930-1960 (New Haven, 1989);
17. Zaragosa Vargas, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, 2005).
18. David Brody, In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker (New York, 1993), 221-45;
19. Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered (Philadelphia, 2000);
20. Deborah E. McDowell, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin (New York, 1996).
21. Final Proceedings of the Eighth Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, November 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 1946. . . (n.p.,n.d.), 42, 60, 74-5, 82-3, 152;
22. Andrew E. Kersten, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II (New York, 2006);
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24. On Shishkin and Cruikshank, see Kersten, 191-212.
25. On Murray, see Charles McCollester, Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice (Pittsburgh, 1996), 59-117.
26. On the Christian Front, see Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950 (Chapel Hill, 1997), 165-91.
27. The most informative source on McGlynn is Robert Emmett Curran's biography of his archenemy, Michael Augustine Corrigan and the Shaping of Conservative Catholicism in America, 1878-1902 (New York, 1978).
28. Herbert G. Gutman, "Protestantism and the American Labor Movement: The Christian Spirit in the Gilded Age," American Historical Review 72 (October, 1966): 74-101;
29. Ken Fones-Wolf, Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915 (Philadelphia, 1989);
30. Liston Pope, Millhands & Preachers, A Study of Gastonia, (New Haven, 1942); Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley (New York, 1939).
31. Robert Watchorn, Autobiography of Robert Watchorn, ed. by Herbert Faulkner West (Oklahoma City, 1958);
32. Katherine A, Harvey, Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835-1910 (Ithaca, 1969), 114-8.
33. William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man-Rediscovered After Fifty Years (1933 reprint by Yale University Press of the 1883 speech). Among the instances of "jobbery" were not only aid to the "petted" poor and the "weak," but also sanitary; safety, and health regulations, river improvements, public buildings, pensions for war veterans, protective tariffs, and the spoils system (16-17, 24-29) .
34. Sumner was consistent: He included military expenditures and imperialism in his catalogue of jobbery; in defiance of some Yale alumni who demanded his dismissal, Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (revised edition,
35. Boston, 1955), 56-64. See also the perceptive discussion of Sumner in Nancy Cohen, Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (Chapel Hill, 2002), 148-59.
36. William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (New York, 1883), 88.
37. Sumner, Forgotten Man, 30.
38. Wilfred M. McClay quoted by Cowie and Salvatore above in note 8.
39. Sumner, Forgotten Man, 30.
40. See August Sartorius von Waltershausen, The Workers' Movement in the United States, 1879-1885, ed. David Montgomery and Marcel van der Linden (Cambridge, 1998), 171-230.
41. Sumner, Forgotten Man, 16; Carlos C. Closson, Jr., "The Unemployed in American Cities," Quarterly Journal of Economics 8 (January 1894): 168-217, 257-8;
42. Carlos A. Schwantes, Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey (Lincoln, NE, 1985);
43. David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1993), 145-57.
44. Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (New York, 1986), 211-15.