TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerstle,Gary
TI  - Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 
SN  - 9780691228235
AV  - HD8039.T42 
U1  - 331.76770097452 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Textile industry
KW  - Rhode Island
KW  - Woonsocket
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Textile workers
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alsace spinning mill
KW  - Amalgamated Clothing Workers
KW  - American Legion
KW  - Americanization campaigns
KW  - Armenian workers
KW  - Blackstone Cotton local
KW  - Bonin Spinning mill
KW  - Bouvier, Joseph
KW  - Canzano, Victor
KW  - Cardijn, Cardinal
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Christian Family Movement
KW  - Courtemanche, Jude
KW  - Daignault, Elphège
KW  - Desurmont spinning mill
KW  - Divini Redemptoris
KW  - English immigrants
KW  - Falls Yarn mill
KW  - Franco-American identity
KW  - French Worsted mill
KW  - Goval, Charles
KW  - Guerin Mills-Rosemont
KW  - Howe, Irving
KW  - ITU radicals
KW  - Independent Club
KW  - Industrial pluralism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Joyland Ballroom
KW  - Keynesianism
KW  - Lawton Spinning
KW  - National War Labor Board
KW  - Peck Law
KW  - Pilgrims
KW  - Portuguese workers
KW  - Providence Journal
KW  - Quebec
KW  - anticommunism
KW  - arbitration
KW  - benefits
KW  - corporatism, Catholic
KW  - dues collection
KW  - ethnic corporatists
KW  - ethnic lodges
KW  - ideological independence
KW  - job security
KW  - kinship networks
KW  - liberalism
KW  - management prerogatives
KW  - millowners
KW  - mulespinners
KW  - nativism
KW  - open-books campaign
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228235?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228235
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691228235/original
ER  -