Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class - Brossura

Lause, Mark A.

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ISBN 10: 0252080866 ISBN 13: 9780252080869

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. Grappling with a broad array of organizations, tactics, and settings, Lause portrays not only the widely known leaders and theoreticians, but also the unsung workers who struggled on the battlefield and the picket line. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness.

In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War and Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0252080866
• ISBN 13: 9780252080869
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 259
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile