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	Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History) by Michael Kazin
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 331.881240979461 EAN 9780252060755 ISBN 025206075X Manufacturer University of Illinois Press Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 338 Publication Date December 01, 1988 Publisher University of Illinois Press Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days Product Description 'Kazin's book is about far more than the construction industry: it also illuminates the social and political history of San Francisco... Gracefully written and adorned with evocative portraits of local political and labor leaders, Barons of Labor is absorbing reading as well as a fine piece of history.' The Nation 'A bold and pioneering work that revises our understanding of skilled craftsmen and the politics of class in the Progressive Era.' Journal of American History 'Barons of Labor, is superb work, carefully researched and written with clarity, vitality, and wit, a pleasure as well as an education to read.' Labor History Customers who bought this item also bought The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Revised and Expanded Edition (Haymarket) Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Working Class in American History) Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (Working Class in American History) We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.) (Working Class in American History) The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Customer Reviews for: Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History) Rating - excellent Kanin's research is solid, and for those interested in San Francisco during the Gilded Age, or labor history, this is a must-read. Focusing in on a clique of unionists that seized contol of the city government, with a particular emphasis on Patrick Henry McCarthy. No, he was not a typical business unionist, but rather a urban progressive who combined a pratical wage-worker consciousness with a social reform mentality. On the other hand, he had ... Read More See all books by author Michael Kazin

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