The working class and its culture / edited with introductions by Neil Shumsky.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Description
xiv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • "Nothing on Compulsion": Life Styles of Philadelphia Artisans, 1820-1850 / Bruce Laurie
    • The City and Community: The Impact of Urban Forces on Working Class Behavior / John T. Cumbler
    • Household and Market Production of Families in a Late Nineteenth Century American City / Claudia Goldin
    • "The Clerking Sisterhood": Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890-1960 / Susan Porter Benson
    • Employment Opportunities for Blacks in the Black Ghetto: The Role of White-Owned Businesses / Howard E. Aldrich
    • The Office in Metropolis: An Opportunity for Shaping Metropolitan America / Gerald Manners
    • Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" / Thomas Dublin
    • Working-Class Culture and Politics in the Industrial Revolution: Sources of Loyalism and Rebellion / Alan Dawley and Paul Faler
    • The Labor Boycott in New York City, 1880-1886 / Michael A. Gordon --
    • The Political Origins of the United Hebrew Trades, 1888 / Morris U. Schappes
    • Labor, Capital, and Community: The Struggle for Power / John T. Cumbler
    • Working Class Unity and Ethnic Division: Cincinnati Trade Unionists and Cultural Pluralism / Barbara L. Musselman
    • Working on El Traque: The Pacific Electric Strike of 1903 / Charles Wollenberg
    • Socialist Women and the "Girl Strikers," Chicago, 1910 / Mari Jo Buhle
    • The Battle for the Eight-Hour Day in San Francisco / Steven C. Levi
    • Painful Memories: The Historical Consciousness of Steelworkers and the Steel Strike of 1919 / Robert Asher
    • The "Rank and File Movement" in Private Social Work / John Earl Haynes
    • Local Government Labor Relations in Transition: The Case of Los Angeles / David Lewin.
    ISBN
    0815321902 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    95038691
    OCLC
    34128572
    RCP
    C - O
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