Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America Essays in America's Working Class and Social History

Name: Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America Essays in America's Working Class and Social History
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ISBN: 9780394722511

ISBN-10: 0394722515

ISBN-13: 9780394722511

Edition: 1976

Authors: Herbert G. Gutman

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These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the…

Book details

Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 343
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English