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ISBN10: 0252019636, ISBN13: 9780252019630, [publisher: University of Illinois Press, Baltimore] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. 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 ...
University of Illinois Press, Date: 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 523pp, not price clipped, no inscriptions. Very slight rubbing to wrapper, no fading or tears. Bright and clean internally with very little apparent wear, almost as new condition. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK. 1993. University of Illinois Press ISBN 0252019636 9780252019630 [GB]
ISBN10: 0252019636, ISBN13: 9780252019630, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover First Edition 523pp, not price clipped, no inscriptions. Very slight rubbing to wrapper, no fading or tears. Bright and clean internally with very little apparent wear, almost as new condition. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK. [Hanley Swan, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 0252019636, ISBN13: 9780252019630, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing of 1st Edition. Near Fine book in Fine DJ. Dust jacket, protected by mylar cover, is clean & bright w/no rips or creases. Book looks almost new. Blue cloth boards w/silver stamped titles very clean. Binding tight. Pages clean & unmarked. Quick, secure shipping w/free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. [Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
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