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- Title
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen (review).
- Authors
Luskey, Brian P.
- Abstract
Their forced death march to Cincinnati enriched both enslavers and large firms like Procter & Gamble that employed a variety of knife- and hammer-wielding wage workers. Yet Zallen's laboring lucifers were resilient, crafting "fugitive geographies" and other forms of workplace resistance that constitute the elements of their valiant survival in the "political ecology" of light (79, 99). Zallen laments that "labor histories have fallen out of fashion" and advocates for "more stories about work and workers" (8).
- Subjects
LIGHT sources; NATURAL resources; ENERGY consumption; CHEMICAL processes
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2021, Vol 18, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article