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  • Claiming the City

    A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism

    How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for todayWinner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied ... Leer más

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  • A David Montgomery Reader

    Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance

    Series series Working Class in American History
    A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection of Montgomery’s most important published and unpublished articles and essays draws from the historian’s entire five-decade career.Taken together, the writings trace the development of Montgomery’s distinct voice and approach while providing a crucial window into an era that ... Leer más

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  • The Great Strikes of 1877

    Series series Working Class in American History
    A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation's first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 ... Leer más

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  • Labor Histories

    Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

    Series series Working Class in American History
    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 ... Leer más

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    Series Libro 1 - Working Class in American History
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    Series series Studies In Modern History
    A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is ... Leer más

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  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

    In this new and revised edition, Knowles explores new materials relating to multiculturalism and immigration.Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in Chains

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  • The Making of the Mosaic

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