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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 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

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 This award-winning book (it won the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working Class History Association) helps us understand the complex ways the working class has responded to death on the job and expands our notions of American ways of caring for--and about--the dead. --Journal of Social History 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

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

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

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