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Subject(s)

• Working class—United States—History [Browse]
• Labor movement—United States—History [Browse]
• City and town life—United States—History [Browse]

Related name

• Shumsky, Neil L., 1944- [Browse]

Series

• American cities ; v. 5. [More in this series]
• American cities ; v. 5 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

0815321902 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95038691

OCLC

34128572

RCP

C - O

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