Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840

Joshua R. Greenberg

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January, 2009
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13542-9
$60.00 / £41.50

"Greenberg’s fascinating and provocative new look at the subject will encourage further exploration." — Mark A. Lause, American Historical Review

"Greenberg has made an important contribution that will require historians to reconsider the role that masculinity played in the earliest labor organizations and political tumult of the early republic." — John Gilbert McCurdy, Journal of American History

"Advocating the Man makes an important contribution to labor history that brings together the intersection of masculinity, home, labor, and collective action." — John Baranski, Journal of Social History

Series

• Gutenberg-e

About the Author

Joshua R. Greenberg is assistant professor of history at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. from American University and is a former fellow of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

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