Social Class in American History

Social Class in American History has been an important theme for historians of the United States for over 100 years.

Contents 1 Turnerian Models 2 Beardian and Marxist Models 3 Labor Studies 4 Ethnoreligious Models and Voting Studies 5 Race, Class and Gender Models 6 References 6.1 Local and Ethnic Studies 6.2 Labor Studies 6.3 Race-Class-Gender 6.4 Theory 6.5 Primary sources

Turnerian Models

Beardian and Marxist Models

Labor Studies

Ethnoreligious Models and Voting Studies

Race, Class and Gender Models

References

• Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Version of the 1790's (1984)
• Beard, Charles and Mary. The Rise of American Civilization (1927)
• Bledstein, Burt. The Culture of Professionalism: the Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America (1976)
• Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1993)
• Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1997)
• Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003)
• Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991.)

Local and Ethnic Studies

• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1994)
• David M Emmons, The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 (1990)
• Thomas A Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (2003)
• Henry M McKiven, Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920 (1995)
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987)
• William Toll, The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class (1982), Jews in Portland Oregon
• David Williams. Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (1999)

Labor Studies

• Paul Bernstein, American Work Values: Their Origin and Development (1997)
• Paul G Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1981)
• Leon Fink ed. In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (1994)
• Richard Edwards, Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (1979)
• Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll slavery and class
• Gutman, Herbert G. and Donald H. Bell, eds. The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (1987)
• Gutman, Herbert, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1988)
• Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1976)
• Hartmut Keil and John B Jentz, eds. German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (1988), primary sources (in English translation)
• Nelson Lichtenstein State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2003)
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• Stephen P. Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (2004)
• Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher, eds Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History (1986)
• Wilentz, Sean. "On Class and Politics in Jacksonian America" Reviews in American History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects (Dec., 1982) pp. 45-63 in JSTOR
• Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), highly detailed scholarly synthesis emphasizing class
• Irwin Yellowitz, The Position of the Worker in American Society, 1865-1896 (1969)

Race-Class-Gender

• Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye eds Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era (1991)
• Jennifer L. Hochschild; Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995)
• Thomas G. West, Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (1997)

Theory

• Martin J. Burke, The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America (1995), intellectual history
• Harold J. Bershady, ed. Social Class and Democratic Leadership: Essays in Honor of E. Digby Baltzell (1989)
• John Patrick Diggins, Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class (1999)
• Michael D. Grimes, Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies (1991)
• Leonard Reissman, Class in American Society (1960), textbook
• Vanneman, Reeve, and Lynn Cannon. The American Perception of Class (1984)
• W. Lloyd Warner, Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status (1949)
• Clarence E Wunderlin, Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America 's Progressive Era (1992)

Primary sources

• Robert S. McElvaine. ed; Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983)

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