The End of Labour History [Paperback]

This 1994 book aims to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the sub-discipline's continuing vitality and validity.The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their subjects.The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their subjects.The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their subjects.Editorial Marcel van der Linden; 1. Divisions of labour: the splintered geography of labor markets and movements in industrializing America. 17901930 Carville Earle; 2. Polymorphous synchrony: German industrial workers and the politics of everyday life Alf L?dtke; 3. Class formation and the labor movement as the subject of dialectic social history Hartmut Zwahr; 4. History of symbols as social history? Ten preliminary notes on the image and sign systems of social movements in Germany Gottfried Korff; 5. Race and the working class part in the United States: multiple identities and the future of labor history David Roediger; 6. Gender and labor history: the nineteenth-century legacy Sonya O. Rose; 7. Connecting household history and labor history Marcel van der Linden; Notes on contributors.