The Spirit of Labor

by Hutchins Hapgood

Book Overview

This non-fiction narrative is an entertaining look at labor struggles, anarchist politics, and proletarian culture in Chicago, the heart of the radical labor movement in the turn-of-the-century United States. Through the story of its central character, anarchist carpenter Anton Johannsen, The Spirit of Labor pulls the reader into a vibrant, gritty world inhabited by unionists and scabs, anarchists and socialists, hoboes and tramps, radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071875
• ISBN13: 9780252071874
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.5"