Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813037196)

Florida provides a unique opportunity to explore the history of working men and women within a constantly changing environment. Stretching from the Spanish colonial period through the recent organizing efforts of service and agricultural workers, this collection showcases a broad spectrum of working experiences in a region that has been sorely neglected in many labor histories. The essays in Florida's Working-Class Past pay special attention to gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and social networks. Under the guidance of editors Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss, the contributors offer fresh analyses of labor activism, re-contextualize Indian tribute and slavery within the context of labor history, and examine major themes in labor and working-class history in one place over several centuries.

Author: Robert Cassanello
ISBN-10: 0813037190
ISBN-13: 9780813037196
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d