History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History /

"In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, an...

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Main Author: Barrett, James R., 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the subjective side of working-class history
  • The Blessed Virgin made me a socialist historian: an experiment in Catholic autobiography and the historical understanding of race and class
  • Was the personal political? reading the autobiography of American communism
  • Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism
  • Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America
  • The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations
  • Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930
  • Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger
  • Irish americanization on stage : how Irish musicians, playwrights, and writers created a new urban American culture, 1880-1940
  • Making and unmaking the working class : E.P. Thompson, the making of the English working class, and the "new labor history" in the United States.