Books by James R. Barrett

James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American working-class history by investigating the ways in which working-class people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities.

Traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States. Integrating indigenous and international factors that determined the fate of American communism, this book provides an understanding of the basis for radicalism among twentieth-century American workers.