Examines the early history of America's labor movement in the nineteenth century, particularly the fight for an eight-hour work day, and its effects on American
Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancire's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 18
This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism