Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-class and Social History"These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the significance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement."--Provided by publisher |
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Work Culture and Society in Industrializing | 27 |
BLACK COAL MINERS | 119 |
Class Status and Community Power | 234 |
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