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All-American
Anarchist Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement Carlotta R. Anderson |
All-American
Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph
A. Labadie, Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's
most influential activists. This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful
career from a childhood among a Pottawatomi tribe in the Michigan woods
through his local and national involvement in a maze of late 19th-century
labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor
party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical
union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation
of Labor. In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history. |
"Carlotta Anderson has produced an outstanding biography of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), a prominent figure in the history of American labor as well as of American anarchism. Beautifully written and meticulously researched , it captures not only his colorful personality but also the flavor of the times in which he lived. By doing so it offers a compelling narrative that deserves the widest audience." —Paul Avrich, Queens College and City University of New York | |||||||||||||
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Lakes Books Series $37.95l cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2707-9 328 pages / 6 x 9 30 b&w illustrations 1998 |
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