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Bread--and roses, the struggle of American labor, 1865-1915. / Milton Meltzer. Illustrated with contemporary prints & photographs.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.
- Series:
- Living history library
- The Living history library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor and laboring classses--United States--History.
- Labor and laboring classses.
- Labor unions--United States--History.
- Labor unions.
- United States.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 231 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm.
- Manufacture:
- West Hanover, Mass. : Printed by Halliday Lithograph Corp.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], [1967]
- Summary:
- A documented account of the growth of the American labor movement from the Civil War to World War I. Examines labor conditions resulting from the change to mass production in mine, mill, and railroad; child labor; women workers; tenement life and sweatshops as contrasted to the life of the rich in the Gilded Age; and the strikes that made the union a permanent institution.
- Contents:
- Revolution by machine
- Only bread, and nothing more?
- Women who work
- Children in the mills
- Tenements and sweatshops
- Who owns America?
- Bread or blood
- I love this union cause
- Rebellion on the railroads
- Dream - and realtiy
- A bomb at Haymarket
- Which way: Gompers or Debs?
- The battle of Homestead
- A model town goes on strike
- Reformers and radicals
- Bread-and roses too!
- Massacre at Ludlow
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "Text set in Electra."
- "Typography by Atha Tehon"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 470335
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