Between the Hills and the Sea

K. B. Gilden

Published by Cornell University Press 1989

Between the Hills and the Sea

K. B. Gilden
With contributions by: David Montgomery

In the series Literature of American Labor

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726798

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About this book

Between the Hills and the Sea by Katya and Bert Gilden vividly portrays the disillusionment of working-class idealists in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Originally published in 1971, the book is an absorbing novel. It also provides an authentic portrait of the social dynamics in a factory town and the effects of McCarthyism on working people's lives.

Author / Editor information

The late David Montgomery was Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of several books, including The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925.

Reviews

Peter Gilmore, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America:

A remarkable novel of postwar hopes and fifties confusion. No other novel so effectively captures the fear, doubt, and heroism of ordinary people caught up in a colossal, corporate power play.

Mark McColloch, University of Pittsburgh:

This is a unique book... well written, lively, and insightful, especially with regard to the dynamics of intraunion rivalry, the lives of union activists, and the dynamics of the shop floor.

Ronald W. Schatz, Wesleyan University:

Ultrasensitive to questions of gender, race, ethnicity, family, local politics, standards of living, shop-floor conditions, and class, it should be enormously helpful in labor history classes as a spur to research.

Mary Jo Buhle, author of Women and the American Left:

Between the Hills and the Sea, as perhaps no other novel of the era, carries forward the best of the proletarian novel to the breakdown of the Left and illuminates the contradictions facing the rank-and-file of the movement.

A huge documentary that is strong stuff, real and tragic.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 566
Keywords: Labor History; U.S. History

eBook

Published: December 15, 2017
ISBN: 9781501726798