Eight Hours for What We Will Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920

Name: Eight Hours for What We Will Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
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ISBN: 9780521313971

ISBN-10: 052131397X

ISBN-13: 9780521313971

Edition: 1999

Authors: Roy Rosenzweig, Robert Fogel, Stephan Thernstrom

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In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/31/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.28" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Context



Workers in an industrial city, 1870G++1920



Culture: The Working-Class World of the Late Nineteenth-Century



The rise of the saloon



Immigrant workers and the fourth of july



Conflict: Struggles Over Working-Class Leisure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



The struggle over the saloon, 1870G++1910



The struggle over recreational space: the development of parks and playgrounds



The struggle over the fourth: the safe and sane july fourth movement and the immigrant working class



Culture, Conflict, and Change: The Working-Class World of the Early Twentieth Century



The commercialization of leisure: the rise of a leisure market and the persistence of the saloon



From rum shop to Rialto: workers and movies


Conclusion


Abbreviations used in notes


Notes


A note on sources


Index