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Remembering David Montgomery (1926–2011) and His Impact on Working-Class History

Barrett, James R.

Labour (Halifax), 2012-09, Vol.70 (70), p.203-223 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Committee on Canadian Labour History and AU Press

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  • Título:
    Remembering David Montgomery (1926–2011) and His Impact on Working-Class History
  • Autor: Barrett, James R.
  • Assuntos: Activists ; American history ; Biography ; Capitalism ; Ethnicity ; Historians ; Historiography ; History ; History instruction ; Labor ; Labor history ; Madeleine Parent (1918–2012) ; Montgomery, David ; Montgomery, David (American writer) ; Political history ; Proletariat ; Public speaking ; Social history ; Steel production ; United States ; United States history ; Working class ; Working class in television ; Workplaces
  • É parte de: Labour (Halifax), 2012-09, Vol.70 (70), p.203-223
  • Descrição: What did [David Montgomery] have to say about workers' own thinking? To what degree did they think and act in class terms? Neither mechanical nor over-determined, for Montgomery class consciousness was a "project" crafted at the hands of politically skilled activists. [David Brody] finds a shift in Montgomery's thinking on this score. Workers' Control in America (1979), Brody argues, shows a Montgomery concerned with "the initiatives of workers themselves, rather than the way in which they were manipulated by those in authority over them."35 Certainly this "rank and file" dimension is present throughout his work. In The Fall of the House of Labor, however, Brody notes that Montgomery stresses how much the making of class consciousness owed to interventions in labour struggles and everyday life by committed activists. The key figures in his story are the "militant minority," those socialists and syndicalists in the early 20th century and other politically conscious workers who followed them and whose "project" it was to "weld their work mates and neighbors into a self-aware and purposeful working class." The significance of these activ- ists had been obscured, Montgomery believed, as much by "history from the bottom, up" as by any "fixation on great leaders." It would be strange indeed if Montgomery's thinking had not evolved between the Workers' Control essays written in the early and mid 1970s amidst the shop-floor upsurges and rank- and-file democracy movements of those years and the dramatic defeats of the 1980s when he was writing The Fall. Yet his emphasis on the "militant minority" on the shop floor and in the neighborhood had been characteristic of Montgomery's approach since at least the early 1970s. More likely and more logically, it is a product of his experiences as a Communist union militant back in the 1950s.36 44. Fred Barkey, "The West Virginia Socialist Part y, 1898-1920: A Study in Work ing-Class Radicalism," PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburg h, 1971; Neville K irk, "The Emergence of Working-Class Reformism in Lancashire, 1850 -1870," PhD dissertation, University of Pit tsburgh, 1974; Donald S. McPherson, "The Fight Against Free Schools in Pennsylvania: Popular Opposition to the Common School System, 1834-1874," PhD d issertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1977; Dorothy Fennel l, "From Rebelliousness to Insurrection: A Social Histor y of the Whiskey Rebellion, 1765-1802," PhD dissertation, Universit y of Pittsburgh, 1981; [Peter Rachelff], "Black, White and Gray"; Cecelia Buck i, "The Pursuit of Political Power: Class, Ethnicity, and Municipal Politics in Inter war Bridgeport, 1915-1936," PhD disser tation, Universit y of Pittsburgh, 1991; [Dorothy Fujita Roney], "' You Got to Move Like Hell '"; Dana Lynn Frank, "At the Point of Consumption: Seattle Labor and the Politics of Consumption, 1919-1927," PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1988; Julia Marie Greene, "The Strike at the Ba l lot Box: Politics and Partisansh ip in the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1916," PhD dissertation, Yale Universit y, 1990; Karen Lynn Sawislak, "Smoldering Cit y: Class, Ethnicity, and Politics in Chicago at the Time of the Great Fire, 1867-1874," PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1990; Karin Adrienne Shapiro, "The Tennessee Coal Miners' Revolts of 1891: Industrialization, Politics, and Convict Labor in the Late Nineteenth-Centur y South," PhD dissertation, Yale Universit y, 1991; Theodore Christos Liazos, "Big Labor: George Meany and the Mak ing of the afl-cio," PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1998.
  • Editor: Committee on Canadian Labour History and AU Press
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