edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein
University of Illinois Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-252-06279-7 | Cloth: 978-0-252-01975-3
Library of Congress Classification HD4904.R488 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.562

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The fundamentals guiding labor historians are under scrutiny today as never before. The field has attempted to uncover the socioeconomic conditions that produced labor militancy and class consciousness, with scholars focusing on proletarianization---the loss of control over the production process---as the key to class conflict. Currently, this entire approach is being questioned.
In Rethinking Labor History, nine well-known French labor historians join the debate. Advocates of both revisionist Marxism and discourse analysis are represented, and examples of empirical research emerging from the theoretical disputes are included.