A David Montgomery Reader

David Montgomery (1927–2011) was the Farnam Professor of History at Yale University. His books include The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. Shelton Stromquist is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism. James R. Barrett is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History.

Acknowledgments

Biographical Sketch

Introduction

Part I. Writing the People’s History



The Great Northern Strike of 1894: When Gene Debs Beat Jim Hill

Part II. Working-Class Formation



The Working Classes of the Pre-Industrial American City, 1780-1830
Social Attitudes of American Workers in the 1840s
The Shuttle and the Cross: Weavers and Artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844
Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America

Part III. Mutualism and Contention: Strikes, Immigrants, and Working-Class Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century



Strikes in Nineteenth-Century America
Labor and the Republic in Industrial America, 1860-1920
Racism, Immigrants, and Political Reform

Part IV. Toward a History of Workers’ Control



Trade Union Practice and the Origins of Syndicalist Theory in the United States
Workers’ Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century
The “New Unionism” and the Transformation of Workers’ Consciousness in America, 1909-22

Part V. After The Fall



Thinking about American Workers in the 1920s
Labor and the Political Leadership of New Deal America
Working People’s Response to Past Depressions

Part VI. The Move to Global and Comparative Study



Empire, Race, and Working-Class Mobilizations
Workers’ Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience

Part VII. Political Interventions



What’s Happening to the American Worker?
Foreword to On Strike for Respect
Yesterday’s Wisdom: Changing Situations and New Initiatives in the American Labor Movement
Challenges Facing Historians of the Working Class

A David Montgomery Bibliography

Index