Retooling the Class Factory: United States Labour History after Marx, Montgomery, and Postmodernism

Labour History

Volumn , Issue 82, 2002, Pages 109-119

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EID: 85171657696     PISSN: 00236942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/27516845     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. Howard Kimeldorf, 'Bringing the Unions Back In (Or Why We Need a New Old Labor History', Labor History, vol. 32, no. 1, 1991, pp. 91-103
2. Scott G. McNall, Rhonda F. Levine, Rick Fantasia, Bringing Class Back in Contemporary and Historical Perspective, Westview Press, Boulder, 1991
3. Ira Katznelson, 'The 'Bourgeois' Dimension: A Provocation about Institutions, Politics and the Future of Labor History', International Labor and Working Class History, no. 46, 1994, pp. 7-32, among others.
4. Elizabeth Faue, Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002.
5. Elizabeth Faue, 'Reproducing the Class Struggle: Class, Gender and Social Reproduction in U.S. Labor History' in Irmgard Steinisch (ed.), Labor History and the Labor Movement: Recent Trends in the United States and Canada, Mitteilungsblatt zur Erforschung der europaeischen Arbeiterbewegung series, Bochum Institute, Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany, 2001, pp. 47-66.
6. Ava Baron (ed.), Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1991.
7. the work of Peter Rachleff, Kimberly Phillips, Tera Hunter, Beth Bates, and, to a lesser extent, Eric Arnesen. The latter's rejection of community as an important factor in workers' lives leads him into the opposite direction to Rachleff, et al.
8. Joshua Freeman, Working Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, New York: Metropolitan Books, New York, 2000.
9. For a study that grounds the longstanding antipathy of history to women's past, see Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
10. See 'The 'Dynamo of Change': Gender and SoUdarity in the American Labour Movement of the 1930s', Gender and History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1989, pp. 138-158
11. see also the essays in Baron (ed.), Work Engendered, for examples of women's labour history that employed Scott to redefine labour history. On masculinity defining class politics, see as well the wonderful book by Julia Swindells and Lisa Jardine, What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement Routledge, London, 1990.
12. For an example of a recent work that relles, perhaps to the neglect of archival research, on a postmodern reading of texts, see Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Columbia University Press, New York, 1999.
13. Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1987, pp. 13-14.
14. Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, p. 123.
15. We might emphasise the high level of geographic and occupational mobillty noted in Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in the Nineteenth Century City, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1964
16. Charles Stephenson, '"There's Plenty Waitin' at the Gates": Mobillty, Opportunity, and the American Worker' in Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher (eds), Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working Class History, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1986, pp. 72-91, and the high rates of unemployment documented in Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986
17. Robert S. Lynd and Helen M. Lynd, Middletown: A Study in American Culture, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1929.
18. Faue, 'Reproducing the Class Struggle'
19. Kathleen A. Brown and Elizabeth Faue, 'Social Bonds, Sexual Politics and PoUtical Community on the U.S. Left, 1920s-1940s', Left History, vol. 7, no. 1, 2001, pp. 7-42.
20. Vincent to Myrtle S., 23 December, 1941, letter in the author's possession.
21. May King Van Rensselaer, The Social Ladder, Henry Holt, New York, 1924.
22. Robert Bruno, Steel Worker Alley, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1999.
23. Brown and Faue, 'Social Bonds'.
24. Donnelly diary, 18 June 18 1890, Ignatius Donnelly papers, microfilm edition, reel 147, fr. 464, Minnesota Historical Society.
25. In a talk to club women, Valesh wrote revealingly, 'I ask you to keep your eyes open for the occasional talented girl among the workers'. Eva McDonald Valesh, 'Women in Welfare Work', American Federationist, 15 April 1908, pp. 282-84.