James R. Barrett Books
Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
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 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
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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