[PDF.25pm] Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

[PDF.ci72] Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

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 | #2371990 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2001-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.86 x5.98l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 356 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great book on labor in Woonsocket RI|By George|I grew up and then spent most of my adult life in Woonsocket, RI. As I read the book, I learned more about the importance of how the city grew in the first part of the 20th century. Many of the names were familiar to me, and of course the very strong French- Canadian ethnic group. The book is definitely the result of an academic re| |"The transformation of ethnically insular workers into passionate American activists is an important story, which Gerstle recounts with unusual subtlety. . . . No one has explored the meaning of Americanism to workers with more intelligence and insight."--A

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I a...

You easily download any file type for your device.Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960   |  Gary Gerstle. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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