Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8349501
Brian K. Obach
{"title":"Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port by Scott L. Cummings","authors":"Brian K. Obach","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8349501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8349501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"17 1","pages":"127-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45910297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114769
T. Juravich
{"title":"“Bread and Roses”","authors":"T. Juravich","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8114769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8114769","url":null,"abstract":"This paper traces the history of the song “Bread and Roses” to examine labor culture and the role of song in the labor movement. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, “Bread and Roses” was included in several of the first generation song books produced by unions that reflected an expansive and inclusive labor culture closely connected with the Left. With the ascendance of business unionism and the blacklisting of the Left after the war, labor culture took a heavy blow, and labor songbooks became skeletons of the full-bodied versions they had once been. Unions began to see singing not as part of the process of social change but as a vehicle to bring people together, and songs such as “Bread and Roses” and other more class-based songs were jettisoned in favor of a few labor standards and American sing-along songs. “Bread and Roses” was born anew to embody a central concept in the women’s movement and rode the wave of new music, art, and film that were part of new social movements and new constituencies that challenged business unionism and reshaped union culture in the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"17 1","pages":"81-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42360859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114854
G. D. Jong
{"title":"King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality by Sylvie Laurent","authors":"G. D. Jong","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8114854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8114854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"17 1","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44353442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114733
J. Gregory
{"title":"Remapping the American Left","authors":"J. Gregory","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8114733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8114733","url":null,"abstract":"Is the American Left reemerging as a political force? Suddenly there are socialists in Congress, socialists on city councils, socialists in the Democratic Party, and much of the media has taken up the question of whether the Democratic Party is swinging to the left. If we are indeed seeing a new surge to the left and new phase of American radicalism, it would not be the first time. This is something that has happened repeatedly in the past century. The particulars are new, but the cycles of movement reinvention appear to be a feature of American politics, one that historians have not adequately explored. American radicalism has been a vexing subject for many years. It was not long ago that historians could do little more than grieve, framing the subject as a story of failures and asking whynot questions. Why was there no revolution? Why wasn’t the US Left more like the European Left or the Canadian Left? Why did the Socialist Party fall apart? Why did the New Left fade? No longer. Books by Paul Buhle, Richard Flacks, Michael Kazin, Doug Rossinow, Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps, Rhodri JeffreyJones, and Dawson Barrett have changed the tone, examining accomplishments as well as limitations, arguing that the Left has initiated significant transformations, especially involving the rights of previously excluded populations, while a century of radical action has also changed the dimensions of the civic sphere and democratic practice by fostering a culture of activism. The newer books do so in","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"17 1","pages":"11-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46666298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114745
Shaun S. Nichols
{"title":"Harmonious Insurrections","authors":"Shaun S. Nichols","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8114745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8114745","url":null,"abstract":"Exceptionalism has long defined our understanding of the rise of progressive politics in the early twentieth-century United States. While industrialized European nations blazed the path of social democracy, in the United States, it is argued, “progressivism” merely legitimized middle-class cultural hegemony, social engineering, and the subversion of working-class power. In this era, however, social reform was a distinctly state-led phenomenon, only rarely taken up by the federal Congress. As such, by analyzing labor protest at the level of the state—in this case, Washington—a different interpretation emerges. American “progressivism” was neither exceptionally repressive nor of little interest to labor. In fact, espousing a language of progress, the common good, and the duty of the state to promote “social harmony,” Washington workers actively drew on “progressive” ideas in their struggles to tame the excesses of industrial capitalism. This ideology of “labor progressivism” became the foundation for unprecedented working-class power.","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"17 1","pages":"47-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42552373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790431
Jordan B. Smith
{"title":"Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, by Sasha Turner","authors":"Jordan B. Smith","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66020149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790395
David Palmer
{"title":"Working-Class Nationalism and Internationalism until 1945: Essays in Global Labour History, ed. by Steven Parfitt, Lorenzo Costaguta, Matthew Kidd, and John Tiplady","authors":"David Palmer","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790455
B. Kelly
{"title":"The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels","authors":"B. Kelly","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790358
Jessica Wilkerson
{"title":"Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, ed. by Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt","authors":"Jessica Wilkerson","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47280934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790407
C. Pearson
{"title":"Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia, ed. by Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist","authors":"C. Pearson","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"122-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}