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The labor question in America : economic democracy in the Gilded Age / Rosanne Currarino.
Lippincott Library HD8072 .C927 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currarino, Rosanne.
- Series:
- Working class in American history
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--United States--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- United States.
- History.
- Working class--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- Social conditions.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the labor question in the late nineteenth century
- The Cant of economy : narratives of depression in the 1870s
- Meat versus rice : anti-Chinese rhetoric and the problem of wage work
- The value of wages : historical economics and the meanings of value
- "Labor wants more!" : the AFL and the idea of economic liberty
- The end of the labor question
- Afterword : residues of the labor question.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252035708
- 0252035704
- 9780252077869
- 0252077865
- OCLC:
- 601331279
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