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• Winner of <DIV>Herbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2009.</DIV> 2009

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Through portraits of industrial accidents, political funerals, and burial rituals, this compelling reinterpretation of working-class culture and the making of labor solidarity highlights how bodies in their gendered, class, and ethnic valences matter--in death as well as life. --Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Through portraits of industrial accidents, political funerals, and burial rituals, this compelling reinterpretation of working-class culture and the making of labor solidarity highlights how bodies in their gendered, class, and ethnic valences matter--in death as well as life. --Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara A tantalizing and well-researched glimpse into the rituals of death for workers whose lives held little value outside their own communities in industrializing America. --Annals of Iowa Rosenow is to be congratulated on his mastery of diverse literatures and his rigorous argument. Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 demonstrates that wageworker's rituals--and the industrial violence that engendered them--were foundational to the formation of working-class identities and organizations. --American Historical Review In his thoughtfully conceived and clearly developed study, Michael K. Rosenow shows that in death as in life, American workers existed on anything but a level playing field. --The Journal of American History

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Michael K. Rosenow is an assistant professor at the University of Central Arkansas.

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