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Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: LABORLORE EXPLORATIONS (Folklore and Society) Hardcover - 1993
by Green, Archie
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- Title Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: LABORLORE EXPLORATIONS (Folklore and Society)
- Author Green, Archie
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 534
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
- Date 1993-06
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4J2HM000682B
- ISBN 9780252019630 / 0252019636
- Weight 1.99 lbs (0.90 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.32 x 1.36 in (23.72 x 16.05 x 3.45 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Folklore - United States, Occupations - United States - Folklore
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-20168
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.097
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From the rear cover
In this culmination of his half-century of involvement with American workers and their traditions, Archie Green explores occupational expression - stories, songs, customs, beliefs, artifacts - on the job and in institutions such as trade unions. Combining ethnographic description with analysis drawn from folklore, history, literary criticism, art history, linguistics, and philosophy, Green presents ten case studies in which he reflects on single words as social texts ("Wobbly", "fink") and clustered words within anecdotes, tales, and ballads ("John Henry", Homestead's strike songs, job yarns about cuckoldry and sexual impotence, and pile-driving traditions, for example). Drawing on Green's own experience as a shipwright and carpenter, the book will appeal both to workers curious about their history and traditions and to academicians who study the workforce and labor process.