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Those who analyze public opinion have long contended that the average citizen is incapable of recounting consistently even the most rudimentary facts about current politics; that the little the average person does know is taken at face value from the media reports, and that the …
"Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States. In opposition to a traditional scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality, or a recovery method centered on author-based interventions, Putz…
Prologue : foregrounding the black worker -- Genesis of the black working class -- Building the early community -- Prelude to the modern age -- Rise of the industrial working class -- African American workers organize -- Demolition of the old Jim Crow order -- Demise of the indu…
"This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affili…
"English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns situates the rise in nationalism and resentment towards society and politics within the decline of the post-war era and the loss of well-paid industrial jobs, increase in non-unionised service employment and the hollowing out of community…
Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected "informal" or "precarious" workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. What are these wo…
"Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected "informal" or "precarious" workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. What are these w…
