False promises : the shaping of American working class consciousness

Summary: This classic study of the American working class, originally published in 1973, is now back in print with a new introduction and epilogue by the author. An innovative blend of first-person experience and original scholarship, Aronowitz traces the historical development of the American working class from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to overcome the forces that tend to divde groups of workers from one another. The rise of labor unions is analyzed, as well as their decline as a force for social change. Aronowitz’s new introduction situates the book in the context of developments in current scholarship and the epilogue discusses the effects of recent economic and political changes in the American labor movement. -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 0822311984
ISBN: 9780822311980
ISBN: 082231181X
ISBN: 9780822311812
Physical Description: print
xliv, 470 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-447) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	New Introduction: Writing Labor's History -- Pt. 1. New Developments in Working Class Life and Labor -- 1. Lordstown: Disruption of the Assembly Line -- 2. Colonized Leisure, Trivialized Work -- Pt. 2. The Formation of the American Working Class -- 3. Formation of the Industrial Working Class -- 4. Trade Unionism: Illusion and Reality -- 5. The Formation of the Professional Servant Class -- 6. The White-Collar Proletarians -- 7. The Unsilent Fifties.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.