The Great Industrial War
Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Faue (Wayne State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1151-1152 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaq121 |
| OpenAlex | W2314030595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The language of class warfare has fared poorly in American politics. The major combatants—capital and labor—historically take the public stage cloaked in the language of public interest and common welfare, even as they characterize their opponents as masked villains of foreign origin, criminal intent, and pernicious greed. But power and influence have often thrown the contest to capital, even though workers have sometimes earned the laurels and sympathy of the public. Troy Rondinone's The Great Industrial War pays new attention to the media representation of class drama in the United States. Exploring the evolving public discourse of class warfare and industrial relations, Rondinone shows how the image of industrial warfare rose and declined with the experience of war and the rediscovery of the public. His first chapter explores the antebellum world of class politics, in which republicanism was the chief theme sounded. Conflicts at the workplace, such as the 1805–1806 cordwainers’ strike in Philadelphia and the great shoemakers strike of 1860 in Lynn, Massachusetts, were represented as struggles over equal rights and liberty, on the one hand, and against the constraints of wage slavery and freedom of contract on the other. While the image of battle sometimes surfaced, it was only one of many in public discourse
Class consciousness · CONTEST · Drama · Framing (construction · General strike · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Sociology · Working class · American History and Culture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |