History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History

Foreword / David R. Roediger  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii

Introduction. The Subjective Side of Working-Class History  1

1. The Blessed Virgin Made Me a Socialist Historian: An Experiment in Catholic Autobiography and the Historical Understanding of Race and Class  7

2. Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism  33

3. Revolution and Personal Crisis: William Z. Foster, Personal Narrative, and the Subjective in the History of American Communism  58

4. Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication in Industrial America  77

5. The Bohemian Writer and the Radical Woodworker: A Study in Class Relations  102

6. Americanization from the Botton Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880–1930  122

7. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the \"New Immigrant\" Working Class / James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger  145

8. Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture, 1880–1940  175

9. Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, and the \"New Labor History\" in the United States  192

Notes  209
Selected Bibliography  273
Index  277