<p>Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving from Rosedale, Kansas to Chicago, New York, and Moscow. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communism's formative decade of the 1920s in the dynamics of a specific political and economic context. Our understanding of the indigenous currents of the American revolutionary left is widened, just as appreciation of the complex nature of its interaction with international forces is deepened.</p>

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (Working Class in American History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Palmer, Bryan D.

Historical

University of Illinois Press

Working-class experience: The rise and reconstitution of Canadian labour, 1800-1980 (Political issues in their historical perspective)

Butterworth

Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900

As Canada's most industrialised province, Ontario served as the regional centre of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, an organisation which embodied a late nineteenth-century working-class vision of an alternative to the developing industrial-capitalist society. The Order opposed the exploitation of labor, and cultivated working-class unity by providing an institutional and cultural rallying point for North American workers. By 1886 thousands of industrial workers had enrolled within the ranks of Ontario's local and district assemblies. This book examines the rise and fall of the Order, providing case studies of its experience in Toronto and Hamilton and chronicling its impact across the province.

Kealey, Gregory S.

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

Work and unions in Canada (About Canada / Canadian Studies Directorate)

Dept. of the Secretary of State of Canada

A culture in conflict: Skilled workers and industrial capitalism in Hamilton, Ontario, 1860-1914

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

McGill-Queen's University Press

Goodyear Invades Backcountry

Business & Money

Economics

Monthly Review+press

Goodyear Invades the Backcountry: The Corporate Takeover of a Rural Town

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