Labor's Mind - A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life Higbie TobiasPaperback softback
Labor's Mind - A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life Higbie TobiasPaperback softback Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed…
Specifikacia Labor's Mind - A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life Higbie TobiasPaperback softback
Labor's Mind - A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life Higbie TobiasPaperback softback
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots.
As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the
History of the Mind
The Rise of the Working-class