Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-class and Social HistoryThese 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 signficance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement. |
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... artisans between 1843 and 1893.25 It is not surprising to find tenacious artisan work habits before the Civil War , what Thompson calls " alternate bouts of intense labour and of idleness wherever men were in control of their 25. Jennie ...
... artisans between 1843 and 1893.25 It is not surprising to find tenacious artisan work habits before the Civil War , what Thompson calls " alternate bouts of intense labour and of idleness wherever men were in control of their 25. Jennie ...
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... artisans did not easily shed stubborn and time - honored work habits . Such work habits and the life - styles and subcultures related to them retained a vitality long into these industrializing decades . Not all artisans worked in ...
... artisans did not easily shed stubborn and time - honored work habits . Such work habits and the life - styles and subcultures related to them retained a vitality long into these industrializing decades . Not all artisans worked in ...
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... artisans ( not just casual or day laborers ) and were often organized along ethnic lines , grew more important in the coastal and river towns after 1830. New York City , among other towns , had its Fly Boys , Chichesters , Plug Uglies ...
... artisans ( not just casual or day laborers ) and were often organized along ethnic lines , grew more important in the coastal and river towns after 1830. New York City , among other towns , had its Fly Boys , Chichesters , Plug Uglies ...
Contents
Work Culture and Society in Industrializing | 29 |
BLACK COAL MINERS | 119 |
Class Status and Community Power | 234 |
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