June 10, 2005
The Wobbly Legend Lives On in Popular Culture
No title seems more likely to cause an academic publisher to dolefully predict sales in the low three figures these days than one stuck with the word "labor." More often than not, it is slipped into the subtitle, as if arriving in disguise. And no wonder, from one perspective: The American labor movement itself has been on a downward spiral, as a proportion of the work force, for more than two generations.
The aura attached to working-class studies by scholarly generations of the 1960s
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