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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691228235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.76770097452 23
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.T42
  • HD8039.T42
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and tables -- Preface to the Princeton edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ethnictown, 1875-1929 -- 1 The French Canadians -- 2 The Franco-Belgians -- Part II The emergence of an industrial union, 1929-1936 -- 3 Beginnings, 1929-1934 -- 4 City wide mobilization, 1934-1936 -- Part III Working-class heyday, 1936-1941 -- 5 "A new, progressive Americanism" -- 6 Ethnic-style unionism -- 7 Ethnic renaissance -- Part IV The crucial decade - and after, 1941-1960 -- 8 The struggle for union power, 1941-1946 -- 9 "Be American!": refashioning a political language, 1944-1946 -- 10 The failure of two dreams, 1946-1960 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Locals organized by ITU, 1932-1955 -- Appendix B: A note on union sources and a list of interviewees -- Index
Summary: 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 and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and tables -- Preface to the Princeton edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ethnictown, 1875-1929 -- 1 The French Canadians -- 2 The Franco-Belgians -- Part II The emergence of an industrial union, 1929-1936 -- 3 Beginnings, 1929-1934 -- 4 City wide mobilization, 1934-1936 -- Part III Working-class heyday, 1936-1941 -- 5 "A new, progressive Americanism" -- 6 Ethnic-style unionism -- 7 Ethnic renaissance -- Part IV The crucial decade - and after, 1941-1960 -- 8 The struggle for union power, 1941-1946 -- 9 "Be American!": refashioning a political language, 1944-1946 -- 10 The failure of two dreams, 1946-1960 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Locals organized by ITU, 1932-1955 -- Appendix B: A note on union sources and a list of interviewees -- Index

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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 and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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