Tramps and Trade Union Travelers

Name: Tramps and Trade Union Travelers
Brand: Haymarket Books
Price: 113.25 AUD

Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 18701900

By: Kim Moody

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Hardcover | 18 August 2020

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330 Pages

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Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert "American exceptionalist" arguments, which state a lack of class-consciousness and union tradition among American workers is to blame. While the racial, ethnic, and gender divisions within the American working class have created organizational challenges for the working class, Moody uses archival research to argue that despite their divisions, workers of all ethnic and racial groups in the Gilded Age often displayed high levels of class consciousness and political radicalism. In place of "American exceptionalism," Moody contends that high levels of internal migration during the late 1800's created instability in the union and political organizations of workers. Because of the tumultuous conditions brought on by the uneven industrialization of early American capitalism, millions of workers became migrants, moving from state to state and city to city. The organizational weakness that resulted undermined efforts by American workers to build independent labor-based parties in the 1880s and 1890s. Using detailed research and primary sources; Moody traces how it was that 'pure-and-simple' unionism would triumph by the end of the century despite the existence of a significant socialist minority in organized labor at that time.

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and is the author of On New Terrain (Haymarket Books, 2017).

Industry Reviews

"Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement."

-Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class

Praise for On New Terrain:

"Moody's "new terrain" is not a world, as most would have it, where globalization has left U.S. workers helpless. It shows how corporations' inevitable push for profits actually opens up new vulnerabilities-if only unions can get their act together. He explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that there is a way for workers to win."

-Jane Slaughter, LaborNotes

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