Teamsters Metropolis
$71.01
- Paperback
258 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
Teamsters Metropolis: How the Union Built the American Middle Class Through Rebellion
In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters propelled working-class immigrants from crowded city blocks to comfortable suburbs, delivering unprecedented benefits and the consumer culture of the decade: patio furniture, pontoon boats, and station wagons. This new suburban comfort, however, came with strict middle-class cultural institutions: the nuclear family, heterosexual monogamy, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780472057535 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0472057537 |
| Author: | Ryan Patrick Murphy |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Imprint: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Ryan Patrick Murphy
Ryan Patrick Murphy is Associate Professor of History at Earlham College. His book Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice received the 2017 David Montgomery Award for best book in Labor History from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
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