Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

Roediger, David & Foner, Philip, S

ISBN 10: 0860919633 / ISBN 13: 9780860919636

Published by Verso, London, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
• Publisher: Verso, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0860919633
• ISBN 13: 9780860919636
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of activity, uniting workers along lines of craft, gender and ethnicity. The authors hold that the workweek is likely again to take on increased significance as workers face the choice between a society based on free time and one based on alienated work and unemployment.

About the Authors

David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as a new edition of Covington Hall's Labor Struggles in the Deep South. His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis.

Philip S. Foner (1910-1994) was Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. He was the author of more than 110 published works, including History of the Labor Movement, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, Women in the American Labor Movement and American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century.