caa a22 4500 386373027 CHVBK 20180307112005.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020859000009056 doi S0020859000009056 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020859000009056 Cronin James E. The "Rank and File” and the Social History of the Working Class [Elektronische Daten] [James E. Cronin] Labor history continues to progress. It continues, too, to transform itself from a field staffed by enthusiasts and partisans into a discipline peopled with scholars sympathetic to their subject but also highly conscious of the methods, theories and interpretive frameworks within which they work. The last few years in particular have witnessed a considerable intensification of scholarly controversy within labor history and a growing sophistication of debate. To some extent the discussion parallels the ongoing conversation among social historians about the boundaries of social history, the power of primarily social explanation and the role of language, culture and politics in social history. Unfortunately, however, the stepping up of debate in labor history coincides with a dip - temporary, one hopes, but perhaps more long-term - in the fortunes of labor movements themselves. This conjuncture seems to have produced a sense of pessimism and malaise as the sentimental accompaniment to many of the debates within labor history. Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1989 International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/1(1989-04), 78-88 0020-8590 34:1<78 1989 34 ISH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009056 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009056 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cronin James E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/1(1989-04), 78-88 0020-8590 34:1<78 1989 34 ISH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge