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West Virginia History, N.S. 7, No.1, Spring 2013 Barkey's research is extremely thorough. In the late 1960s, he conducted more than ninety interviews with old radicals and their family members. In doing so, he preserved a chapter in West Virginia history that would otherwise be lost. He also researched the written record extensively, examining the Socialist Party Papers at Duke, newspapers, and government documents. Working Class Radicals is one of the few labor histories of West Virginia that spans the urban industrial centers and the coal fields. At times, it brings the early 1900s back to life and captures labor leaders' collaborations and rivalries, their hopes and fears. In a robust foreword that places Working Class Radicals into the broader literature, Ken Fones-Wolf notes that had Barkey written this study today, it would have been much different. Barkey would have benefitted from forty years of scholarship on West Virginia's political economy and undoubtedly would have paid closer attention to the roles of women and African Americans in the events that unfolded. I also found that at times his desire to recover and preserve the names of individual Party members overwhelmed the narrative. Yet these shortcomings do not diminish
West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies – West Virginia University Press
Published: May 2, 2013
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