The working class currently has remarkable visibility in US political culture. In defiance of a longstanding belief in America’s classlessness, even today’s sitting.
This volume seeks papers that take the concept of white working class seriously, as both category and thing-in-itself, while focusing a critical gaze.
It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle.
Bisbee ‘17 is a documentary about an Arizona town facing its ghosts. In June 1917, when copper miners organized by the Industrial Workers of.
The new year has not been happy for former Sears employees. As the company fights for its life in bankruptcy court, laid-off employees.
I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal.
Please help spread the word about an opportunity for college seniors, recent graduates, or rank-and-file activists who are interested in trying out a.
Editor’s note: This is our 5th in the series on the celebration and reflections on the anniversary of the University of Illinois Press.
We continue our commentaries about the important contributions and critical reviews of the remarkable Working Class in American History Series, which is celebrating.
The project was imbued with E. P Thompson’s vision of class as a historical relationship, and of course there was his iconic statement.