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Workers' World Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940 / John Bodnar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodnar, John E., 1944-
- Series:
- Studies in Industry and Society Series
- Studies in industry and society ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arbeiter.
- Arbeidersklasse.
- Working class.
- Social history.
- Labor unions.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Syndicats--Pennsylvanie--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Travailleurs--Pennsylvanie--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Labor unions--Pennsylvania--History--20th century.
- Working class--Pennsylvania--History--20th century.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvanie--Conditions sociales.
- Pennsylvanie--Émigration et immigration--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Pennsylvania--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Pennsylvania--Social conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Arbeiter.
- Arbeidersklasse.
- Syndicats--Pennsylvanie--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Travailleurs--Pennsylvanie--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Pennsylvanie--Conditions sociales.
- Pennsylvanie--Émigration et immigration--Histoire--20e siecle.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :) illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community relationships. In the past, Bodnar contends, American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes, the rise of unionism, and the struggle for control over the workplace. In an effort to mitigate historians' flattening of workers into the two-dimensional plane of politics and protest, Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers, coal miners, steelworkers, and others in Pennsylvania.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Kinship: The Ties That Bind
- Part II. The Enclave: A World Within a World
- Part III. Organizing in the Thirties: Defending the Workers' World
- Conclusion: Culture and Protest
- A Note on Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-2785-X
- 1-4214-3394-X
- OCLC:
- 652320260
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