Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

The Working Class in American History

by Eric Arnesen (Editor), Bruce Laurie (Editor), Reeve Huston (Contributor)

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.

Genres: History, Labor

408 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998