TY - BOOK AU - Gutman,Herbert George AU - Berlin,Ira TI - Power & culture: essays on the American working class SN - 0394561716 AV - HD8072 .G97 1987 PY - 1987/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Pantheon Books KW - Working class KW - United States KW - History KW - African Americans KW - Slavery N1 - 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 ER -