How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.
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"Radical history at its best, speaking directly to the descendants of radicals and social visionaries about the lessons of their past."--Monthly Review "This is a first-rate study of the interplay between class and ethnicity in a late nineteenth-century industrial city. . . . an important book that should be read not only by students of labor and immigration history but by all those interested in the evolution of American culture and values."--American Studies
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsList of Tables and
FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living and Working in DetroitVarying
Industrial ExperiencesTable
2. Firm Size and Distribution of Factory
Employees in Detroit, 1896Table
3. Class Composition of Detroit Work Force,
1890Table
4. Detroit Women Wage Workers, 1892: Age at which They Began
WorkTable
5. Age of Women Workers in Detroit, 1892Table
6. Daily Wages of
Detroit Workers, 1884What Did Workers Have in Common?2. Class Solidarity and
Competing Cultural SystemsDetroit's Workers: Who Were They?Table
7.
Occupational Composition of Detroit Ethnic Groups, 1880-1900Competing
Cultural SystemsThe Working Class Subculture of OppositionCraft Unions in the
Late 1870'sLabadie, Grenell, and American SocialismSocialist ActivitiesBeyond
the SLP: The Knights of LaborUnionsKnights of LaborPolitical ActionTable
8.
Independent Labor Vote, State Representative Candidates, 1882-1886The
Subculture of Opposition5. A Summer of Possibilities: May Day of Labor Day,
1886Factional Divisions within the Labor MovementThe Collapse of the
Independent Labor PartyWidening the Breach: The Knights, The Cigarmakers, and
the Trade UnionsPowderly, Haymarket, and the Destruction of the Knights of
Labor"Will the butter come?"Class Solidarity and Working-Class
CulturePolitical AlliancesDetroit's Labor Movement in the 1890's: The Triumph
of Pure and Simple UnionismFigure 1: Union Membership in Detroit,
1800-1906Figure
2. Union Membership as Percentage of Work Force, Detroit,
1880-1906ConclusionFigure
3. Percentage of Unionization of Nonagricultural
Employees, 1886-1929Note on SourceIndexBack cover
Richard Jules Oestreicher is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
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