Power & culture :

Gutman, Herbert George, 1928-

Power & culture : essays on the American working class / Herbert G. Gutman ; edited by Ira Berlin. - 1st ed. - New York, N.Y. : Pantheon Books, c1987. - xi, 452 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [413]-444.

Introduction: Herbert G. Gutman and the American working class -- The workers' search for power : labor in the Gilded Age -- Joseph P. McDonnell and the workers' struggle in Paterson, New Jersey -- Labor in the land of Lincoln : coal miners on the prairie -- The labor policies of the large corporation in the Gilded Age : the case of the Standard Oil Company -- A note on immigration history, "breakdown models," and the rewriting of the history of immigrant working-class peoples -- Schools for freedom : the post-emancipation origins of Afro-American education -- Enslaved Afro-Americans and the "Protestant" work ethic -- Labor history and the "Sartre question" -- Interview with Herbert Gutman -- The black family in slavery and freedom : a revised perspective -- Class composition and the development of the American working class, 1840-1890 -- Historical consciousness in contemporary America.

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Working class--History.--United States
African Americans--History.
Slavery--History.--United States

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