Description: Grand Army of Labor : Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War, Paperback by Stanley, Matthew E., ISBN 0252085736, ISBN-13 9780252085734, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom
From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism.
An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights.
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Book Title: Grand Army of Labor : Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the C
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Safety, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Matthew E. Stanley
Series: Working Class in American History
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
