History from the bottom up and the inside out : : ethnicity, race, and identity in working-class history / / James R. Barrett.

In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and clas...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the subjective side of working-class history
  • The Blessed Virgin made me a socialist historian: an experiment in Catholic autobiography and the historical understanding of race and class
  • Was the personal political? reading the autobiography of American communism
  • Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism
  • Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America
  • The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations
  • Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930
  • Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger
  • Irish americanization on stage : how Irish musicians, playwrights, and writers created a new urban American culture, 1880-1940
  • Making and unmaking the working class : E.P. Thompson, the making of the English working class, and the "new labor history" in the United States.