Labour/Le Travail, September 22nd, 2007
Bernard Mandel, Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States. Introduction by Brian Kelly (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2007, originally published 1955) THIS IS A BOOK that deserves not to have been reprinted, at least not bearing the freight with which its overwrought introduction burdens it. Its author, Bernard Mandel, a working-class activist with a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University, was an estimable and admirable figure. His 1963 biography of Samuel Gompers remains the best account of the life and limitations of the ...
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