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This edition features a new foreword by Paul Buhle and a new epilogue by the author.''A brilliant work. It deals with this nation's rough-and-ready methods for dealing with ideological nonconformists.''--Justice William O. Douglas, The Washington Post ''Ought to be on the shelf of everyone who is concerned with the history of American civil ......
The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-85
On Strike for Respect is a lively account of the 1984-85 strike by clerical and technical workers at Yale University. Members of Local 34, with a strong female majority, mobilized themselves and the public, breathing new life into the labor movement as they fought for and won substantial gains. A short update on current conditions concludes this ......
In this culmination of his half-century of involvement with American workers and their traditions, Archie Green explores occupational expression---stories, songs, customs, beliefs, artifacts---on the job and in institutions such as trade unions. Combining ethnographic description with analysis drawn from folklore, history, literary criticism, art ......
Transforming Tradition offers the first serious look at folksong revivals, vibrant meldings of popular and folk culture that captured public awareness in the 1950s and 1960s. Best remembered for such songs as ''Tom Dooley'' and for performances like the Kingston Trio and Joan Baezs, the revival of that era gave rise to hootenannies, coffeehouses, ......
Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970
Provides a rich prism through which to explore the social, economic, and political developmentof black Cincinnati. These studies offer insight into both the dynamics of racism and acommunity's changing responses to it. -- Peter Rachleff, author of Black Labor inRichmond
Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada
Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social dancing enjoyed by the Gwich'in Athapskan Indians and other tribal groups in northeast Alaska, the Yukon, and the northwest territories. Though the music has obvious roots in the British Isles, French ......
The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-90
From the Great Depression to the Sunbelt Era the South has pursued industrial development as the remedy for its economic ills. The mixed results of this ongoing crusade are chronicled in this path-breaking study, updated to 1990, in which James Cobb examines the expectations, achievements, and side effects of the dive for southern ......
Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of ......
When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle ''An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation.'' But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln, not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of the life ......
