scholarly journals Maurice F. NEUFELD, Daniel J. LEAB, Dorothy SWANSON : American Working Class History : A Representative Biography. New York - London, Bowker, 1983, 356 pp., ISBN 0-8352-1752-3

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 406
Author(s):  
James Thwaites
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
American Working Class

Kevin Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 336 pp. $18.95 paper.

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 160-163
Author(s):  
James R. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Anthracite Coal ◽  
The Us ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
Valuable Treatment ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Us Civil War

Few episodes in North American working-class history have attracted as much attention as the rise and fall of the Molly Maguires. The term refers to a secret movement of Irish miners who employed threats and violence in confronting their adversaries in the anthracite coal fields in the decade after the US Civil War. Most interpretations have been ideologically charged and focused mainly on the violence itself, beginning with sensational newspaper accounts and Alan Pinkerton's own book based on information from his operative James McParland who infiltrated the movement. At least one study, J. Walter Coleman's The Molly Maguire Riots (Richmond, 1936), showed a healthy skepticism for McParland's biased sources—Pinkerton and others who were more interested in hanging the Molly Maguires than in understanding them. In The Molly Maguires (New York, 1983 [1964]), however, Wayne Broehl, Jr., developed the more typical view that the Mollies were terrorists and the Pinkertons heroes. Though he handled the evidence less critically than Coleman, it is Broehl's account that has been viewed as the standard, perhaps the definitive account for more than a generation. With all this work and much more, why do we need another study of the Molly Maguires and what is it that makes Kevin Kenny's by far the most valuable treatment of them?

La Scuola di Francoforte in esilio: storia di un'inchiesta sull'antisemitismo nella classe operaia americana

2009 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Catherine Collomp
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Working World

- Between July and December 1944 the Institute for social research of Columbia University made known the results of a survey on anti-Semitism in the American working class carried out by the Jewish Labor Committee of New York. The results of the research confirmed the rooting of a few stereotypes and prejudices on Jews in some specific segments of the American working world: more widespread among "blue collars" rather than "white collars" and among the white population rather than the black. This form of anti-Semitism involved, paradoxically, also the workers of factories producing weapons to fight against the Third Reich. A form of anti-Semitism which did not stop with the end of World War II but turned, using the same mechanisms analyzed by migrant German sociologists, into a discrimination against communist militants.Parole chiave: Scuola di Francoforte, esilio, classe operaia, antisemitismo, razzismo, comunismo School of Frankfurt, exile, anti-Semitism, working class, racism, communism

Hold the Fort: The Dynamics of Twentieth-Century American Working Class History

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Melvyn Dubofsky ◽  
David Brody ◽  
David Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
American Working Class
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