Paper 24 reading list

Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982)
Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002)
Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001)
Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (2000)
d. Trade Unions amd Socialism
Leon Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983)
John H. M. Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, Failure of a Dream Essays in the History of American
Socialism (1984)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor
Activism. 1865-1925 (1987)
Robert H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions (1994)
9. POPULAR CULTURE *[see also relevant readings in Section 10]
Topics include: popular music and its history; the development of American media (print, film, television)
and its imagery; American sporting culture; the spread of American culture abroad
a. General
Sam B. Girgus, ed., The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981)
Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988)
Russel Blaine Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America (1970)
Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20 th Century (1999)
Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001)
Susan Smulyan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (2007)
William L. Van Deburg, Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture (1984)
b. Music
David Andrew Ake, Jazz Cultures (2002)
Erika Lee Doss, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999)
Paul Friedlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History (1996)
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