Refining Complex Narratives: Radicalism,Class,and Race During the Second Industrial Revolution

I have used the framework of the Second Industrial Revolution because all but one of the books reviewed center their analyses on the period between 1870 and 1920. The historiography of this industrial transformation is extensive. Significant sources remain Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) and David A. Hounsell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1984).

G.K. Chesterton , The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908), 20. "The Iceman Cometh," in Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays, Volume III, 1932-1943, ed. Travis Brogard (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1988), 575.

George Woodcock , preface to Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements ( New York: Meridian Books, 1962), 9. See also Marshall P. Shatz , ed., introduction to The Essential Works of Anarchism (New York, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972), xi.

Woodcock, preface to Anarchism, 9 and Alan Ritter, Anarchism: An Intellectual Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 11, 25.

Shatz, introduction to The Essential Works of Anarchism, xii-xiii.

Beverly Gage , The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America In Its First Age of Terror (New York: Oxford University Press , 2009), 340n9.

Melvyn Dubofsky , We Shall Be All: A History of Industrial Workers of the World (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969), preface, xii, 56, 87, 94-95, 146-47, 154-58, 169-213, 480-81. An abridged edition of the book was published in 2000 by the University of Illinois Press under the editorial direction of Joseph A. McCartin. See also Nick Salvatore , Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1984) and David Montgomery , The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism (New York: Oxford University Press , 1989.)

Woodcock, Anarchism, 453-54, 460.

Thomas Adam , "Review of Goyens, Tom, Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914." H-German, H-Net Reviews, March 2009, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24254 (accessed August 9, 2009).

Some of the central sources on the Yiddish language include Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), Dovid Katz, Grammar of the Yiddish Language (London: Duckworth, 1993), and Marvin I. Herzog, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Dan Miron, and Ruth Wise, eds., The Field of Yiddish Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature (The Hague: Mouton, 1969). For a recent, fascinating examination of the history of Yiddish radio in the United States, see Ari Y. Kelman, Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009). For more on the development and influence of Yiddish newspapers, see David Silverman, "The Jewish Press: A Quadrilingual Phenomenon," in The Religious Press of America, ed. Martin Marty (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963).

See, for example, Gerald Sorin, A Time for Building: The Third Migration (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992) and Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Woodcock, Anarchism, xi. A fine recent interpretation of the McKinley assassination and its effect on subsequent events is Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003).

Henry David, History of the Haymarket Affair: A Study in the American Social-Revolutionary and Labor Movements (New York: Russell and Russell, 1958), introduction, xx, 12, 54-55, 104, 170-71, 245 406, 410, 490-91, 508-28. A new edition was published by Macmillan in 2000. David’s influence on Gutman is mentioned in Ira Berlin, ed., introduction to Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), 4.

Examples would include Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005); Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999); and Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).

W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study has never been out of print since its initial publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1899. The latest edition was published in 1995 with an introduction by Elijah Anderson. Perhaps the best overview of Du Bois’ landmark contribution is Michael B. Katz and Thomas J. Sugrue , eds., W. E. B. Du Bois, Race and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).