Grand Army of Labor

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252085734

Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War

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By Matthew E. Stanley
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Matthew E. Stanley is an associate professor of history at Albany State University. He is the author of The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America.

"In often surprising and unexpected ways, Grand Army of Labor tells us how the experience, imagery, and memory of the Civil War shaped the United States labor movement. The result is a history of divergent movements, from Greenbackism to Debsian socialism, that were at times expansively emancipatory and at others tragically narrow. It is a history chock full of lessons for our present moment."--Charles Postel, author of Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 "With erudition, sensitivity, and sophistication, Matthew Stanley shows us how the U.S. Civil War lived on in the memory of the country's labor movement during the decades that followed--symbolizing and dramatizing values and aspirations and therefore inevitably becoming itself a terrain of struggle among the movement's contending factions."--Bruce Levine, author of The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South "This powerful and judicious study changes how we think about Civil War memories and working class histories. Sure grasp of the multiplicity of United States labor--African American and white, native-born and newcoming, female and male, North and South, veteran and not--illuminates how a constantly recreated remembrance of the emancipatory side of the war could produce a broad language of freedom, one bound to contain its own contradictions and limitations."--David Roediger, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

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