Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-slavery Movement in the United States - Couverture souple

Mandel, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252074289 ISBN 13 : 9780252074288

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists

Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers North and South, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled Northern workers to find their own way into the antislavery ranks.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Mandel was an independent scholar who also published a biography of Samuel Gompers. Brian Kelly is a senior lecturer in the School of History at Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. He is the author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252074289
• ISBN 13: 9780252074288
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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