| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The working class in American history |
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Working class in American history.
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| Contents |
Introduction: working-class community -- Class and race in the interwar years -- Driving and chauffeuring in Miami -- Fighting the open shop -- Winter playground blues: unemployment, home labor, and the hobo express -- Appeals to harmony: Perrine Palmer and transcending scarcity -- Fighting for social harmony: relief, new deals, and the unemployed -- Labor marches: class struggle and the marginalization of class |
| Summary |
"In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city's service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami's atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2022) |
| Subject |
Working class -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Social conflict -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Service industries workers -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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Service industries workers
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Social conflict
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Working class
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Society & culture: general.
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Society.
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Florida -- Miami
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021055206 |
| ISBN |
9780252053450 |
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0252053451 |
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