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1 online resource. |
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The working class in american history
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Working class in American history.
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Quite Like Ourselves: Opposition to Military Compulsion during the Great War in the United States and Australia / Robin Archer -- Workers against Warfare: The American and Australian Experiences before and during World War I / Verity Burgmann and Jeffrey A. Johnson -- Domestic "Dogs of War" Unleashed: The Comparative Fates of Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics in the United States and Australia during the Great War / Shelton Stromquist -- In Not a Few Respects, a Common History: Women, Wartime Lawmaking, and the Prosecution of Dissenters / Diane Kirkby -- From Whips to Wages: From Coercive to Incentive-Driven Labor / Jennie Jeppesen -- Union-Avoidance Strategies in the Meat Industry in Australia and the United States / Marjorie A. Jerrard and Patrick O'Leary -- Catholic Irish Australia and the labor movement: race in Australia and nationalism in Ireland, 1880s-1920s / Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall -- Gatekeepers and "Americanizers": Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor Movement in the United States, 1880s-1920s / James R. Barrett -- Causes of Railroad Labor Conflict: The Case of Queensland, Australia, and the Northern US Plains, 1880-1900 / Bradley Bowden and Peta Stevenson-Clarke -- Comparative Mutinies: Case Studies of Working-Class Agency in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1863, and the Australian Imperial Force, 1918 / Nathan Wise -- How to Build a Trade Union Oligarchy: Guidance from the United States and Australia, 1886-1970 / Scott Stephenson -- Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform: Workers' Subjectivity, Welfare Legislation, and Liberal Hegemony in 1930s Australia and the United States / Benjamin Huf -- Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Cooperatives in Australia and the United States / Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave -- Anarchy at the Antipodes: Australian Anarchists and Their American Connections, 1885-1914 / Tom Goyens -- An Agitator Abroad: P.H. Hickey, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1900-1930 / Peter Clayworth -- Harry Bridges's Australia, Australia's Harry Bridges / Robert Cherny -- Conclusion: Harvesting the Fruits of Transnational and Comparative History / Shelton Stromquist and Greg Patmore. |
| Summary |
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labour relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labour; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and political cultures. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Labor -- United States -- History.
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Labor. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Labor -- Australia -- History.
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Australia. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Patmore, Greg, editor.
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Stromquist, Shelton, 1943- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frontiers of labor. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252041839 0252041836 (DLC) 2017055613 (OCoLC)1004761520 |
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9780252050503 (electronic book) |
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0252050509 (electronic book) |
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9780252041839 |
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0252041836 |
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9780252083457 |
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0252083458 |
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