Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: LABORLORE EXPLORATIONS

by Archie Green

Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252019630
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	06/01/1993
Series:	Folklore and Society
Pages:	534
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Archie Green (1917-2009) was the author of Calf’s Head and Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play and many other books.