Awards
- "Winner of <DIV>Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, ""The Very Last Hurrah"" by Eric Leif Davin.</DIV> 1997"
- Winner of <DIV>Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, The Very Last Hurrah by Eric Leif Davin.</DI 1997
- Winner of <DIV>Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, ""The Very Last Hurrah"" by Eric Leif Davin.</DIV> 1997
Overview
Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, ""The Very Last Hurrah"" by Eric Leif Davin This collection of articles delves into the little-known community-based unionism of the 1930s. Worlds apart from bureaucratic business unions like the AFL-CIO, these organizations emerged from workers involved in many kinds of labor, from African American nutpickers in St. Louis to chemical and rubber workers in Akron, and from bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta. The contributors draw on eyewitness interviews, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources to describe experimental forms of worker activism during the period. This alternative unionism was democratic, deeply rooted in mutual aid among workers in different crafts and work sites, and politically independent. The key to it was a value system based on egalitarianism. The cry, ""We are all leaders!"" resonated among rank-and-file activists. Their struggle, though often overlooked by historians, has much to teach us about union organizing today. Contributors: John Borsos, Eric Leif Davin, Elizabeth Faue, Rosemary Feurer, Janet Irons, Michael Kozura, Mark D. Naison, Peter Rachleff, and Stan Weir
Full Product Details
Author: Staughton Lynd ,
Rosemary Feurer ,
Janet Irons ,
Mark Naison
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780252065477
ISBN 10: 0252065476
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 01 September 1996
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, The Very Last Hurrah by Eric Leif Davin.
"Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, ""The Very Last Hurrah"" by Eric Leif Davin."
An important anthology... Brings to life workers' struggles of the 1930s, using a style of historical investigation previously applied most widely in studies of the nineteenth century. -- David Montgomery, author of Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market During the Ninenteenth Century
Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, ""The Very Last Hurrah"" by Eric Leif Davin.
Author Information
Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. In 1964, he worked as director of Freedom Schools during Mississippi Freedom Summer and later became an attorney. His books include Doing History from the Bottom Up: On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below and Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism.
