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Record Nr.

UNISA996571857203316

Autore

Haverty-Stacke Donna T

Titolo

America's Forgotten Holiday [[electronic resource] ] : May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 / / Donna T. Haverty-Stacke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-4798-4484-5

0-8147-9071-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

American history and culture

Disciplina

394.26270973/09041

394.2627097309041

Soggetti

Nationalism - United States - History

May Day (Labor holiday) - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Out of America's Urban, Industrial Cauldron: The Origins of May Day as Event and Icon, 1867-1890; 2 Revolutionary Dreams and Practical Action: May Day and Labor Day, 1890-1903; 3 Working-Class Resistance and Accommodation: May Day and Labor Day, 1903-1916; 4 Defining Americanism in the Shadow of Reaction: May Day and the Cultural Politics of Urban Celebrations, 1917-1935; 5 May Day's Heyday: The Promises and Perils of the Depression Era and the Popular Front, 1929-1939; 6 World War II and Public Redefinitions of Americanism 1941-1945

7 May Day Becomes America's Forgotten Holiday 1946-1960Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what



America should be as a nation. Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare f