Author: Philip Sheldon FonerPublisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
British Labor and the American Civil War
Author: Philip Sheldon FonerPublisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Free Labor
Author: Mark A. LausePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. Grappling with a broad array of organizations, tactics, and settings, Lause portrays not only the widely known leaders and theoreticians, but also the unsung workers who struggled on the battlefield and the picket line. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.
English Public Opinion and the American Civil War
Author: Duncan Andrew CampbellPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861932633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Numerous issues in Britain affected public reaction to the American Civil War. Opinion was not straightforward with recent evidence showing that a majority of English people were suspicious of both sides in the conflict. This volume offers new insights into British attitudes to the conflict.
Great Britain and the American Civil War
Author: Ephraim Douglass AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Civil War And the American System
Author: W. Allen SalisburyPublisher: Executive Intelligence Review
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
When historian W. Allen Salisbury first wrote this book in 1978, he was seeking to teach Americans that the battle between the American System of economics and the British System of free trade which resulted in the Civil War, was at the center of the political battles of the 20th century. Today, this is even more true. The heirs of Adam Smith and the British Empire are pressing for worldwide adoption of free trade, a system which led to slavery in the 19th century, and would do so again today. And certain U.S. political circles are even openly demanding a return to the principles and Constitution of the Confederacy. Utilizing a rich selection of primary-source documents, Salisbury reintroduces the forgotten men of the Civil War-era battle for the American System: Mathew Carey, his son and successor Henry Carey, William Kelley, William Elder, and Stephen Colwell. Together with Abraham Lincoln, they demanded industrial-technological progress, against the ideological subversion of British "free trade" economists and the British-dominated Confederacy. Salisbury hightlights the career of Henry C. Carey, who, as Lincoln's leading economic adviser, acted to prevent a complete City of London banker's takeover of the United States political-economic system.
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
Author: The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement
Author: Tom BuchananPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521393331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book draws on a mass of documentary material to provide a major reinterpretation of British labour's response to the Spanish Civil War. It challenges the view that the labour leadership ' betrayed' the Spanish Republic, and that this polarised the movement along `left' versus 'right' lines. Instead, it argues that the overriding concern of the major leaders was to defend labour's institutional interests against the political destabilisation caused by the conflict, rather than to defend Spanish democracy. Although the main advocates of this position were trade union leaders associated with the labour right such as Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin, the book argues that their dominance reflected the centrality of the trade unions to labour movement decision-making rather than the abuse of union power to achieve political goals.
Union in Peril
Author: Howard JonesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Discusses why Great Britain and other leading European countries failed to intervene in the Civil War.
Great Debates in American History: The Civil War
Author: Marion Mills MillerPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This is a compilation of the most significant debates that have taken place in US history as conducted by the country's most brilliant statesmen. It includes introductory essays by many academics and is intended for any one with an interest in politics and the US.
Great Britain and the American Civil War
Author: Douglass Ephraim AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781435365278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description