RETHINKING LABOR HISTORY: ESSAYS on DISCOURSE and CLASS ANALYSIS - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062795 ISBN 13: 9780252062797

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1993

Synopsis

The fundamentals guiding labor historians are under scrutiny today as never before. The field has attempted to uncover the socioeconomic conditions that produced labor militancy and class consciousness, with scholars focusing on proletarianization---the loss of control over the production process---as the key to class conflict. Currently, this entire approach is being questioned.
In Rethinking Labor History, nine well-known French labor historians join the debate. Advocates of both revisionist Marxism and discourse analysis are represented, and examples of empirical research emerging from the theoretical disputes are included.

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Review

"The problem of situating working-class history amid growing challenge to a materialist approach is a compelling one, and these essays approach it seriously, imaginatively, and diversely." -- Peter N. Stearns, author of Meaning over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of History and Culture

About the Author

Lenard R. Berlanstein is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and the author of "The Barristers of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century" (1975) and "The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914" (1984), both from Johns Hopkins.

Lenard R. Berlanstein was Commonwealth Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252062795
• ISBN 13: 9780252062797
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Berlanstein Lenard R.