The lake, the farmer and the dentist -- Creating a newspaper colony -- The genesis of the alliance -- Closing in on the deal -- The early colonies and the promotional articles -- The later colonies and the display ads -- The economic aftermath -- Hybrids and clones -- William Randolph Hearst --...

Introduction: When workers disappear -- Down in the hole: steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950s -- Dirty laundry: labor and love in the working-class home -- "You are only poor if you have no one to turn to": race, geography, and cooperation -- Doctor New Deal: social rights and the making of the...

State Power and the Development of Capitalism -- The Working Class -- Social Democracy and the National Question -- February to October 1917 -- November 1917: Attempts at Reconciliation -- December: The Failure of Reconciliation -- The First Treaty of Brest Litovsk -- Battles for Kyiv -- Kyiv...

Die Generation nach den Babyboomern ist die erste nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, die ihre Eltern mehrheitlich nicht wirtschaftlich übertreffen wird. Obwohl die Wirtschaft ein Jahrzehnt lang wuchs, besitzt die Mehrheit in diesem Land kaum Kapital, kein Vermögen. Doch sich Wohlstand aus eigener...

"From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery...

"Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the...

I Från arbetets horisont ger nio historiker sin syn på arbetslivshistorisk eller arbetarhistorisk forskning. I de personligt hållna bidragen diskuterar de utvecklingen av den egna forskningen, dess inriktning och resultat, mot bakgrund av de inom- och utomvetenskapliga förutsättningar som...

Introduction : capitalists and immigrants in historical perspective, 1865- -- Harmonic dissidence : immigrants and the onset of industrial strife -- No danger among them : Asian immigrants as industrial workers -- Alien anarchism : immigrants and industrial unrest in the 1880s -- Confronting the...

"Men Is Cheap shows how the concepts of military and domestic necessity were connected in white northerners' minds and clarifies what they thought the war was fought over. In the process of winning the war, white northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by...

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest...

"As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an...

"The distribution of food played a considerable yet largely unrecognized role in the economic history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In the midst of rapid urbanization and industrialization, retail competition intensified and the channels by which food made it to the market became vital to...

"The labor movement has been under attack for decades; by understanding the nature of the right-wing attack, activists and scholars can analyze ways to build a working-class movement in the United States."

"Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, provides a critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In "How the World Works," Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a detailed...

Foreword / Don Kalb -- Socialist primitive accumulation in Cluj -- Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948 -- "More precious than gold" : labour instability and the stickyness of everyday life -- "Workers," "proletarians," and the struggle for cheap labour -- Time and...

"From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as...

Prólogo /Rossana Barragán Romano y Amaru Villanueva Rance --1.Género del trabajo/no trabajo --Introducción /Mirta Zaida Lobato / Verena Stolcke / María Ullivarri --¿Qué es trabajo? Las fronteras conceptuales entre trabajo y no trabajo /Fernanda Wanderley --Los "sin trabajo" antes del...

In this paper, we take up the burgeoning debate about the underrepresentation of the working class in politics. In the literature section we discuss theories of group representation and look at recent empirical studies of responsiveness that have begun to disaggregate public opinion by...

Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power presents fresh and original scholarship that reexamines and reinterprets the field. Collectively, these essays cover virtually the entire span of United States history, from the early national period following the American Revolution...