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Tramps & Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870–1900 Kindle Edition
From the author of On New Terrain, a historical examination of why American workers never organized in early industrial America and what it means today.
Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert “American exceptionalist” arguments, which state a lack of class-consciousness and union tradition among American workers is to blame. While the racial, ethnic, and gender divisions within the American working class have created organizational challenges for the working class, Moody uses archival research to argue that despite their divisions, workers of all ethnic and racial groups in the Gilded Age often displayed high levels of class consciousness and political radicalism.
In place of “American exceptionalism,” Moody contends that high levels of internal migration during the late 1800s created instability in the union and political organizations of workers. Because of the tumultuous conditions brought on by the uneven industrialization of early American capitalism, millions of workers became migrants, moving from state to state and city to city. The organizational weakness that resulted undermined efforts by American workers to build independent labor-based parties in the 1880s and 1890s. Using detailed research and primary sources, Moody traces how it was that “pure-and-simple” unionism would triumph by the end of the century despite the existence of a significant socialist minority in organized labor at that time.
“Terrific . . . An entirely original take on . . . why American labor was virtually unique in failing to build its own political party. But there’s much more: in investigating labor migration and the ‘tramp’ phenomenon in the Gilded Age, he discovers fascinating parallels with today's struggles of immigrant workers.” —Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHaymarket Books
- Publication dateAugust 13, 2019
- File size3561 KB
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“Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement.”
—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class
Praise for On New Terrain:
"Moody's "new terrain" is not a world, as most would have it, where globalization has left U.S. workers helpless. It shows how corporations' inevitable push for profits actually opens up new vulnerabilities—if only unions can get their act together. He explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that there is a way for workers to win."
-Jane Slaughter, LaborNotes
About the Author
Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of several books on the U.S. labor movement, including On New Terrain: How Capitalism is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017), In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2014) and U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007). He has a PhD from the University of Nottingham.
Product details
- ASIN : B08MCQWCTW
- Publisher : Haymarket Books (August 13, 2019)
- Publication date : August 13, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 3561 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 420 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,431,782 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #111 in Gilded Age History of the U.S.
- #323 in Labor & Industrial Relations (Kindle Store)
- #420 in Radical Thought
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About the author
Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes in the US and the author of several books on labour and politics. His most recent is On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017). He has a PhD and is currently a Visiting Scholar at Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment of the University of Westminster in London, and a member of the University and College Union, National Union of Journalist, the British Universities Industrial Relations Association, the Labor and Working Class History Association, and the Working Class Studies Association.
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