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| 1. |  | Title: The struggle for the breeches: gender and the making of the British working class Author: Clark, Anna Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Working-class heroes: protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood Author: Kefalas, Maria Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office worker . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922  Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | United States History | European History | Labor Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany Author: Poiger, Uta G 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | Cultural Anthropology | European History | United States History | American Music | Jazz | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Working people of California Author: Cornford, Daniel A 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | California and the West | Labor Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Weimar surfaces: urban visual culture in 1920s Germany Author: Ward, Janet 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Architecture | Film | European Studies | European History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual cu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | German Studies Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Ger . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German Studies Publisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany Author: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | German Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identity Author: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Education | Anthropology | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany Author: Widdig, Bernd Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: German Studies | European History | Intellectual History | European Literature Publisher's Description: For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dyn . . . [more] Similar Items |