Working-Class Americanism

The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

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Gary Gerstle

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In this interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, the author 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. While the origins and spread of this language reflected the efforts of elites and the increasingly powerful American state to strip workers of their foreign ways and radical beliefs, the language itself proved flexible enough to express both the social, democratic and ethnic communalist visions that inspired political activism among the nation's workers during the Great Depression. This book should be of interest to historians of America, political scientists, sociologists and economic historians.

Author Biography:

Gary Gerstle is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland. College Park. He is the author of the forthcoming American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (see page 7 in this catalog).

Release date Australia

March 31st, 2002

Author

Gary Gerstle

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

Revised edition

Pages

372

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780691089119

Product ID

7675242

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