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title Life and Labor Dimensions of American Working-class History SUNY - photo 1

title:Life and Labor : Dimensions of American Working-class History SUNY Series in American Labor History
author:Stephenson, Charles.; Asher, Robert.
publisher:State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin:0887061737
print isbn13:9780887061738
ebook isbn13:9780585057521
language:English
subjectWorking class--United States--History, Industrial sociology--United States--History, Labor unions--United States--History.
publication date:1986
lcc:HD8066.L54 1986eb
ddc:305.5/62/0973
subject:Working class--United States--History, Industrial sociology--United States--History, Labor unions--United States--History.
Page i
Life and Labor:
Dimensions of American
WorkingClass History
Page ii
A Volume in the SUNY American Labor History Series
Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher, General Editors
Page iii
Life and Labor:
Dimensions of American
WorkingClass History
Edited by
Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher
State University of New York Press
Page iv
Permissions
Patricia Cooper's essay is drawn from her book Smoke and Fire: Gender, Class and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (forthcoming) and appears here with the kind permission of the University of Illinois Press.
Melvyn Dubofsky's essay first appeared in Amerikastudien/American Studies (24:1, 5-20) and appears here with the kind permission of that Journal.
Earlier versions of Brian Greenberg's essay appeared in The Maryland Histo- rian (8:2, 38-53), and in his book Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American CityAlbany, New York, 1850-1884 (State University of New York Press, 1985), and appears here with the kind permission both of The Maryland Historian and of the State University of New York Press.
Walter Licht's essay contains excerpts from his book Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century, copyright 1983 by Princeton University Press, and is reprinted here with the kind permission of Princeton University Press.
Earlier versions of Roy Rosenzweig's essay appeared in Radical History Review (9:1, 66-81) and as Chapter Five of his book Eight Hours for What We Will (Cambridge University Press, 1983), and appears here with the kind permission both of Radical History Review and of Cambridge University Press.
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State University of New York Press, Albany
1986 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stephenson, Charles.
Life and labor.
(American labor history series)
Includes index
1. Labor and laboring classesUnited StatesHistory.
2. Industrial sociologyUnited StatesHistory.
3. Trade-unionsUnited StatesHistory. I. Asher,
Robert. II. Title. III. Series.
HD8066.S73 1986 305.5'62'0973 86-14362
ISBN 0-88706-173-7
ISBN 0-88706-172-9 (pbk.)
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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To Mitchell and Colin
and
To Sam and Tanya
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Contents
A Note to Students
ix
Acknowledgments
x
CHAPTER 1.
Dimensions of American Working-Class History
CHARLES STEPHENSON AND ROBERT ASHER
1
CHAPTER 2.
From Artisan to Proletarian: The Family and the Vocational Education of the Shoemaker in the Handicraft Era
WILLIAM MULLIGAN
22
CHAPTER 3.
Industrial Ecology and the Labor Process: The Redefinition of Craft in New England Textile Machinery Shops, 1820-1860
THOMASLEARY
37
CHAPTER 4.
Worker and Community: Fraternal Orders in Albany, New York, 1845-1885
BRIAN GREENBERG
57
CHAPTER 5.
"There's Plenty Waitin' at the Gates": Mobility, Opportunity, and the American Worker
CHARLES STEPHENSON
72
CHAPTER 6.
The Dialectics of Bureaucratization: The Case of Nineteenth-Century American Railway Workers
WALTER LICHT
92

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CHAPTER 7.
Industrial Safety and Labor Relations in the United States, 1865-1917
ROBERT ASHER
115
CHAPTER 8.
The Boycott and Working-Class Solidarity in Toledo, Ohio in the 1890s
GREGORY ZIEREN
131
CHAPTER 9.
Reforming Working-Class Play: Workers, Parks, and Playgrounds in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
ROY ROSENZWEIG
150
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