James R. Barrett Books

Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922

By James R. Barrett

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Chicago's packinghouse workers were not the hopeless creatures depicted by Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle", but active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industria...

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William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism

By James R. Barrett

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"William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism incorporates the indigenous and the international factors that determined the fate of American communism. By tracing the evolution of Foste...

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The Irish way
The Irish way

By James R. Barrett

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The Irish Way
The Irish Way

By James R. Barrett

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In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and wo...

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