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Offers a comprehensive biography of influential Detroit labor activist Joseph A. Labadie.

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Carlotta Anderson has produced an outstanding biography of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), a prominent figure in the history of American labor as well as of American anarchism. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it captures not only his colorful personality but also the flavor of the times in which he lived. By doing so it offers a compelling narrative that deserves the widest audience.--Paul Avrich Queens College and City University of New York Carlotta Anderson's biography of Joseph Labadie does justice to one of the most remarkable yet neglected figures in late nineteenth-century U.S. history. Labadie's career as a trade unionist, socialist, and anarchist involved him in the most important worker and radical movements of his lifetime, and also with Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, Eugene Debs, Johann Most, and Emma Goldman. Labadie's life, as portrayed by Anderson, encapsulated the history of social protest and radicalism as well as the tension between communitarianism and individualism in American culture and society.--Melvyn Dubofsky State University of New York, Binghamton A readable and engaging biography; Labadie's important, if idiosyncratic, career spans several streams in the history of American radicalism from the beginning of American socialism, through the Knights of Labor, to anarchist libertarianism.--Richard Oestreicher University of Pittsburgh

"A readable and engaging biography; Labadie's important, if idiosyncratic, career spans several streams in the history of American radicalism from the beginning of American socialism, through the Knights of Labor, to anarchist libertarianism.--Richard Oestreicher ""University of Pittsburgh "" Carlotta Anderson has produced an outstanding biography of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), a prominent figure in the history of American labor as well as of American anarchism. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it captures not only his colorful personality but also the flavor of the times in which he lived. By doing so it offers a compelling narrative that deserves the widest audience.--Paul Avrich ""Queens College and City University of New York "" Carlotta Anderson's biography of Joseph Labadie does justice to one of the most remarkable yet neglected figures in late nineteenth-century U.S. history. Labadie's career as a trade unionist, socialist, and anarchist involved him in the most important worker and radical movements of his lifetime, and also with Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, Eugene Debs, Johann Most, and Emma Goldman. Labadie's life, as portrayed by Anderson, encapsulated the history of social protest and radicalism as well as the tension between communitarianism and individualism in American culture and society.--Melvyn Dubofsky ""State University of New York, Binghamton """

A readable and engaging biography; Labadie's important, if idiosyncratic, career spans several streams in the history of American radicalism from the beginning of American socialism, through the Knights of Labor, to anarchist libertarianism.--Richard Oestreicher University of Pittsburgh Carlotta Anderson has produced an outstanding biography of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), a prominent figure in the history of American labor as well as of American anarchism. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it captures not only his colorful personality but also the flavor of the times in which he lived. By doing so it offers a compelling narrative that deserves the widest audience.--Paul Avrich Queens College and City University of New York Carlotta Anderson's biography of Joseph Labadie does justice to one of the most remarkable yet neglected figures in late nineteenth-century U.S. history. Labadie's career as a trade unionist, socialist, and anarchist involved him in the most important worker and radical movements of his lifetime, and also with Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, Eugene Debs, Johann Most, and Emma Goldman. Labadie's life, as portrayed by Anderson, encapsulated the history of social protest and radicalism as well as the tension between communitarianism and individualism in American culture and society.--Melvyn Dubofsky State University of New York, Binghamton

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Carlotta R. Anderson has published articles in Smithsonian, Inquiry, Michigan History, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Toledo Blade. She lives in Glen Echo, Maryland.

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