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American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-1885 / Charlotte Erickson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erickson, Charlotte, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Economic History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Etats-Unis. Emigration 1860-1885.
- Etats-Unis. Main d'oeuvre étrangère 1860-1885.
- Industrie États-Unis.
- Wirtschaft.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Working class--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Working class--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-1885".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I. THE SEARCH FOR SKILL
- Chapter 1. ORGANIZED EFFORTS T O PROMOTE IMMIGRATION
- Chapter 2. PATTERNS OF PRIVATE RECRUITMENT, 1860-1885
- Chapter 3. UNCERTAINTIES OF THE CONTRACT LABOR SYSTEM
- PART II. FROM EUROPEAN FARMS TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY
- Chapter 4. AGENCIES IN EUROPE FOR RECRUITING UNSKILLED INDUSTRIAL LABOR
- Chapter 5. THE DISTRIBUTION OF UNSKILLED IMMIGRANTS TO INDUSTRY
- Chapter 6. REACTIONS IN THE MINES AND ON THE RAILROADS
- Chapter 7. MACHINERY AND IMMIGRATION
- PART III. THE ANTI-CONTRACT LABOR LAWS
- Chapter 8. THE WINDOW GLASS WORKERS
- Chapter 9. THE FORAN ACT
- Chapter 10. EXPERIMENTS WHICH FAILED
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I. STATEMENTS OF WAGES AND PRICES PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN EMIGRANT COMPANY IN EUROPE
- APPENDIX II. THE FOREIGN BORN IN THE UNITED STATES LABOR FORCE
- APPENDIX III. WORK OF THE CASTLE GARDEN LABOR BUREAU
- APPENDIX IV. CONTRACT LABORERS DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES
- APPENDIX V. FEDERAL DIVISION OF INFORMATION
- NOTES
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-33330-6
- OCLC:
- 1013936662
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