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These sparkling essays catch a mature and prodigious talent in an uncommonly contemplative mood. James Barrett ranges across the field's core themes of class, race, and ethnicity (including an original take on the whole Thompsonian paradigm), then uses his own personal intellectual and political coming of age as an opening to new inquiries about work and individual identity. --Leon Fink, author of The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order

I found this stirring collection of essays completely absorbing. James Barrett incisively weaves together the fabric of his own life experience with the trajectory of the new Labor History in which he played a central part. From his astute discussion of faith in the lives of working people to his persuasive explorations of working class culture and class, Barrett pushes us to consider the relevance of working class history to contemporary politics. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, author of Gendering Labor History These sparkling essays catch a mature and prodigious talent in an uncommonly contemplative mood. James Barrett ranges across the field's core themes of class, race, and ethnicity (including an original take on the whole Thompsonian paradigm), then uses his own personal intellectual and political coming of age as an opening to new inquiries about work and individual identity. -- Leon Fink, author of The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order

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James R. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author and editor of several books, most recently, The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City. David Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All.

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