Working people of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 / Bruce Laurie. by Laurie, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…The work setting, 1800-1850 -- The sources of industrial diversity -- Part two. The forging of working-class cultures, 1820-1837 -- Revivalists: the militias of Christ -- Traditionalists: "the boys of pleasure" -- Radicals: Thomas Paine's progeny -- "We are all day laborers": the General Trades' Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1833-1837 -- Part three. …”
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Everyday Las Vegas : local life in a tourist town / Rex J. Rowley. by Rowley, Rex J., 1977-

Subjects: “…Working class Nevada Las Vegas Social life and customs.…”
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An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century / Carolyn Steedman. by Steedman, Carolyn

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The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico / Matthew C. Gutmann. by Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953-

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Class fictions : shame and resistance in the British working-class novel, 1890-1945 / Pamela Fox. by Fox, Pamela, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Recovering the "Narrow plot of acquisitiveness and desire": a methodology for reading working-class narrative -- 1. Rehabilitating working-class cultural and literary history: the critical agenda -- 2. …”
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The respectability of late Victorian workers : a case study of York, 1867-1914 / by Charles Walter Masters. by Masters, Charles Walter

Subjects: “…Working class England York History 19th century.…”
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Working class politics in the German Revolution : Richard Müller, the revolutionary shop stewards and the origins of the council movement /... by Hoffrogge, Ralf, 1980-

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CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKING CLASS the economic thought of thomas hodgskin. by MINGARDI, ALBERTO

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Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott. by Lott, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.…”

Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott. by Lott, Eric

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New England Blue : Plays of working-class life / Israel Horovitz. by Horovitz, Israel

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Worlds of pain : life in the working-class family / Lillian Breslow Rubin. by Rubin, Lillian B.

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In solidarity : essays on working-class organization in the United States / Kim Moody. by Moody, Kim

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Youth of Darkest England : Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire.

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Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott. by Lott, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Blackface and blackness : the minstrel show in American culture -- Love and theft : "racial" production and the social unconscious of blackface -- White kids and no kids at all : working-class culture and languages of race -- The blackening of America : popular culture and national cultures -- "The seeming counterfeit" : early blackface acts, the body, and social contradiction -- "Genuine negro fun" : racial pleasure and class formation in the 1840s -- California gold and European revolution : Stephen Foster and the American 1848 -- Uncle Tomitudes : racial melodrama and modes of production.…”
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Manhood on the line ; working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer. by Meyer, Stephen, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: forms and meanings of working-class manhood -- Lost manhood : mass production and auto worker masculinity -- Reclaiming manhood : shop culture, industrial unionism, and the derogation of women, 1920s and 1930s -- "Rats, finks, and stool pigeons" : the disreputable manhood of factory spies in the 1920s and 1930s -- Fighting to provide : the battle to organize the Ford River Rouge Plant, 1930-1945 -- Fashioning dense masculine space : industrial unionism and altered shop-floor relations, 1935-1960s -- The female "invasion" : women and the male workplace, 1940-1945 -- The challenge to white manhood: black men and women move to white male jobs, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: the more things change, the more they stay the same -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Working-class minority students' routes to higher education / Roberta Espinoza. by Espinoza, Roberta

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Foundation: Educational Social and Cultural Capital; 3 Pivotal Moments that Produce Habitus Change; 4 Educational Outcomes of a Hybrid Working-/Middle-Class Habitus; 5 The Transformative Power of Educators; 6 Educator-Student Relationships that Shape College Aspirations and Academic Success; 7 Conclusion; References; Index.…”
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Death and dying in the working class, 1865-1920 / Michael K. Rosenow. by Rosenow, Michael K.

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Eyes on labor : news photography and America's working class / Carol Quirke. by Quirke, Carol

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Literacy with an Attitude : Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest. by Finn, Patrick J.

Table of Contents: “…TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HEIRS TO THECORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AND A NEW PARADIGM FOREDUCATING WORKING-CLASS STUDENTS -- 16. TEACHERS WHO AGITATE: Freirean Motivation in the Classroom -- 17. …”
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