The essays in this volume focus on the role of women in the work force. They explore how organized sports, social associations of all kinds and the educational system faced by the children of worker were profoundly linked to work place and community activism. They examine why radical labor organizations that could win major strikes often could not sustain themselves as permanent institutions. Finally, the essays argue that simultaneous leadership changes in management and labor in the auto industry were less the result of internal conflicts than needed structural adjustments to changing economic and political realities. Interwoven into all of the essays is the intricate dynamic between immigrant and native-born, between different immigrant waves and the groups, and between workers at different skill levels. Work, Recreation, and Culture enriches and expands the established labor narratives.
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Martin Blatt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. He is the author of Free Love an Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood and the co-editor of The Meaning of Slavery in the North. Currently he is the Chief of Cultural Resources/Historian at Boston National Historical Park.
Martha Norkunas received her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. Her book, The Politics of Public Memory, received the 1994 Historic Preservation Book Award. She served as Cultural Affairs Director for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission from 1989-1994. Currently she is Oral and Public Historian at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Martha Norkunas received her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. Her book, The Politics of Public Memory, received the 1994 Historic Preservation Book Award. She served as Cultural Affairs Director for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission from 1989-1994. Currently she is Oral and Public Historian at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
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In 1927 when Florence Way reached her twenty-fifth work anniversary at Travelers Insurance Company, the editor of the office newspaper pictured her as the twentieth-century business woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
worsted workers, industrial recreation, industrial sport, ethnic branches, steward system, woolen workers, other mill towns, success rhetoric, store employment, buying staff, ethnic colonies, recreation leaders, worker activism, percent hike, steno pool, textile strike, plebeian culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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worsted workers, industrial recreation, industrial sport, ethnic branches, steward system, woolen workers, other mill towns, success rhetoric, store employment, buying staff, ethnic colonies, recreation leaders, worker activism, percent hike, steno pool, textile strike, plebeian culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, United States, World War, American Woolen Company, Harvard University Press, University of Illinois Press, William Rawcliff, Women's Bureau, Civil War, New Hampshire, Old World, Wool Council, Bureau of Vocational Information Papers, Odd Fellows, Federal Security Agency, General Motors, New Jersey, Oxford University Press, Travelers Beacon, Communist Party, New Haven, South Leicester, Temple University Press, Cambridge University Press New!
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- Ideology and Curriculum by Michael W. Apple on 5 pages
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly on 4 pages
- American Labor on 4 pages
- Brass Valley: The Story of Working People's Lives and Struggles in an American Industrial Region by Brecher on 4 pages
- Gilded Age by C R Gibson Company on page 143, and page 149
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- Meaning of Slavery in the North (Labor in America) by Martin H. Blatt in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Meaning of Slavery in the North (Labor in America) by Martin H. Blatt in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Swing, That Modern Sound by Kenneth J. Bindas in Back Matter
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