Rainbow at Midnight Labor and Culture in The 1940s

Name: Rainbow at Midnight Labor and Culture in The 1940s
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ISBN: 9780252063947

ISBN-10: 0252063945

ISBN-13: 9780252063947

Edition: 1994

Authors: George Lipsitz

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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 7/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Write about Workers?



Class, Gender, and Race in Wartime, 1943-45



Tradition, Turmoil, and Transformation: Three Wartime Workers



"A Rainbow at Midnight": Women, Work, and Corporate Liberalism



"Till Then": Hate Strikes, Black Self-activity, and Wartime Wildcats



Reconversion and General Strikes, 1945-46



"A Few Selfish Men": The 1945 Strike Wave



"We Will Not Go Back to the Old Days": The General Strikes Begin



"Everything Stops Today": The General Strikes Spread



Politics and Power, 1947-50



"More Radical Than Their Leaders": The Taft-Hartley Act



"No Classes in This Country": Labor and the Cold War



"Red Baiting at the Grass Roots": Evansville and Fairmont City



Class and Culture, 1945-53



"Damn Foolishness": The Fight for Control at the Point of Production



Corporate Culture, Conformity, and Commodities: The Fight for Moral Authority



Reel America: The Working Class and Hollywood



"Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens": The Class Origins of Rock and Roll


Conclusion: What Labor Lost, and Why


Index