Rainbow at midnight : labor and culture in the 1940s

by George Lipsitz

Paper Book, 1994

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Available

Pages

vi; 359

Tags

U.S. Labor History: 18th and 19th Centuries

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Collection

Your library

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1994.

Description

Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.  

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Language

English

Original publication date

1994-08-01

Physical description

vi, 359 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

0252063945 / 9780252063947

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