| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered. By Jack Metzgar. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. x, 264 pp. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 1-56639-738-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56639-739-1.)

Not so long ago, labor history was a vibrant subject. Now we have a full complement of senior professors but few students. Our monographs sell by the handful; books intended for the classroom languish and go out of print. We do not really mind. We write for each other anyway, and, the university being what it is, we are not penalized professionally (providing we are good at teaching the big-enrollment surveys). But Jack Metzgar, not himself a professional historian, does mind, because he recognizes that a vibrant history is essential for a revived labor movement and because he is affronted by the obliteration ofhis working-class past from the nation's memory. . . .

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