1940s Culture in Labor Midnight Rainbow
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Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laurie Mercier, Laurie Mercier's hard-hitting study of "community unionism" examines the tenacity of union loyalty 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and communal values within the confines of a one-industry town: Anaconda, Montana, home to the world's largest copper smelter 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and the namesake of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Mercier depicts the vibrant life of the smelter city at full steam, documenting the early history of the town 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and the distinctive culture of cooperation 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and activism that residents fostered in the 1930s 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and 1940s. Ultimately, their solidarity 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and discontent with the company converged in the successful 1934 strike 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and sustained five decades of devoted unionism. During the cold war years, Anacondans held to their communal values 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and to the union in the face of antilabor 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and anticommunist pressures, embracing an "alternative Americanism" that championed improved living standards for working people, rather than unlimited corporate power, as the best defense against communism. Mercier chronicles the bitter struggle between two rival unions that undercut the town's labor solidarity in the postwar years. She also explores how gender definitions shaped the nature 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and outcome of labor struggles. Mercier carries her investigation through the closing of the smelter in 1980. Underscoring the role of the community in molding working-class consciousness, Anaconda offers important insights about the changing nature of working-class culture 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and the real potential for collective action under the midday sun of American industrial capitalism.
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Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines by Erin A. Smith, In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and Clues featured a new kind of hero 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult reading habits, social 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and labor history, Smith offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were generated 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and read. She shows that although the work of pulp fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and Erle Stanley Gardner have become "classics" of popular culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid by the word, not self-styled artists. Pulp magazine editors 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. Unlike the highly rational 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and respectable British protagonists (Miss Marple 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and Hercule Poirot, for instance), tough-talking American private eyes relied as much on their fists as their brains as they made their way through tangled plot lines.. Casting working-class readers of pulp fiction as "poachers", Smith argues that they understood these stories as parables about Taylorism, work 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and manhood; as guides to navigating consumer culture; as sites for managing anxieties about working women. Engaged in re-creating white, male privilege for the modern, heterosocial world, pulp detective fiction shaped readers into consumers by selling them what theywanted to hear -- stories about manly artisan-heroes who resisted encroaching commodity culture 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and the female consumers who came with it. Commenting on the genre's staying power, Smith considers contemporary detective fiction by women, minority 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and gay 1940s culture in labor midnight rainbow and lesbian writers.
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