Florida's Working-class Past

Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Av Robert Cassanello, Melanie Shell-Weiss

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Florida provides a unique opportunity to explore the history of working men and women within a constantly changing environment. Stretching from the Spanish colonial period through the recent organizing efforts of service and agricultural workers, this collection showcases a broad spectrum of working experiences in a region that has been sorely neglected in many labor histories.The essays in ""Florida's Working-Class Past"" pay special attention to gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and social networks. Under the guidance of editors Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss, the contributors offer fresh analyses of labor activism, re-contextualize Indian tribute and slavery within the context of labor history, and examine major themes in labor and working-class history in one place over several centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-01-04
Mått163 x 236 x 30 mm
Vikt588 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorking in the Americas
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN9780813032832

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och ledarskap
Migration inom Samhalle och politik

Not only a fine collection on Florida itself, but also a model of what edited state histories of labor might look like in the future. It is as multiracial (moving also well beyond black and white) and almost as gendered as the experiences of workers themselves. It refuses to separate the histories of slavery and of free labor. Finally it is at times impressively interdisciplinary without any lapses into disciplinary jargon. - David R. Roediger, University of Illinois