Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation (Contributions in Economics and Economic History,)

Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 2 Brotherhood and Conflict in Meriden and New Britain, Connecticut, 1890-1920 3 Migration, Class Formation, and Class Consciousness: The American Experience 4 Cash, Coffee-Breaks, Horseplay: Eigensinn and Politics among Factory Workers in Germany 5 The Formation of the Rural Proletariat in the South African Countryside: The Class Struggle and the 1913 Natives' Land Act 6 The Boatmen of Ghana: The Possibilities of a Pre-Colonial African Labor History 7 Industrialization and the Structuring of Asian Labor Movements: The "Gang of Four" 8 Workers' Self Management and the Transition to Socialism Annotated Bibliography Index About the Contributors