Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present

by Eric Foner and George Lipsitz

Book Overview

Written by some of our nation's top historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the revolution to the present in terms of broad struggles for power in society at large. In more than a dozen chapters, the topics range from the committees of artisan "republicans" at the time of the American Revolution to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Whether the subject is the anti-slavery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252012216
• ISBN13: 9780252012211
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"