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German workers in industrial Chicago, 1850-1910 : a comparative perspective / Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz, editors.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HD8081.G4 G47 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faires, Nora Helen, author.
- Oestreicher, Richard Jules, 1947- author.
- Suhrbur, Thomas J., 1946- author.
- Barrett, James R., 1950- author.
- Harzig, Christiane, author.
- Schneider, Dorothee, 1952- author.
- Levine, Bruce C., 1949- author.
- Schneirov, Richard, author.
- Heiss, Christine, author.
- Buhle, Paul, 1944- author.
- Ensslen, Klaus, author.
- Ickstadt, Heinz, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German Americans--Employment--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- German Americans.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- German Americans--Employment--History.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- German Americans--Employment.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- German Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Employment--19th century.
- German Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--19th century.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1983.
- Language Note:
- Based on papers given at a 1981 conference in Chicago organized by the Chicago Project based at the America Institute of the University of Munich.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz
- German immigrant workers and their place in American urban society. Chicago's German working class in 1900 / Hartmut Keil
- Occupational patterns of German-Americans in nineteenth-century cities / Nora Faires
- Industrialization, class, and competing cultural systems: Detroit workers, 1875-1900 / Richard Oestreicher
- Industrialization and transformation of work. Skilled workers and industrialization: Chicago's German cabinetmakers and machinists, 1880-1900 / John B. Jentz
- Ethnicity in the formation of the Chicago carpenters union: 1855-1890 / Thomas J. Suhrbur
- Immigrant workers in early mass production industry: work rationalization and job control conflicts in Chicago's packinghouses, 1900-1904 / James R. Barrett
- Neighborhood and everyday life. Chicago's German north side, 1800-1900: the structure of the Gilded Age ethnic neighborhood / Christiane Harzig
- "For whom are all the good things in life?" German-American housewives discuss their budgets / Dorothee Schneider
- Politics and culture. Free soil, free labor, and Freimanner: German Chicago in the Civil War era / Bruce Carlan Levine
- Class conflict, municipal politics, and governmental reform in Gilded Age Chicago, 1871-1875 / Richard Schneirov
- German radicals in industrial America: the lehr-und wehr-verein in Gilded Age Chicago / Christine Heiss
- German socialists and the roots of American working-class radicalism / Paul Buhle
- German working-class culture in Chicago: continuity and change in the decade from 1900 to 1910 / Klaus Ensslen and Heinz Ickstadt.
- Notes:
- Based on papers given at a 1981 conference in Chicago organized by the Chicago Project based at the America Institute of the University of Munich.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0875800890
- 9780875800899
- OCLC:
- 9576268
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