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A Social History of the Laboring Classes: From Colonial Times to the Present (Problems in American History) - Softcover

Jones, Jacqueline

 
9780631207702: A Social History of the Laboring Classes: From Colonial Times to the Present (Problems in American History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631207708 ISBN 13: 9780631207702
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life.

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About the Author

Jacqueline Jones is Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. She is the author of American Work (1998), The Dispossessed (1993), Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow (1986), winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History.

From the Back Cover

In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life: work. Beginning with the seventeenth century, A Social History of the Laboring Classes examines broadly all types of workers - the waged and unwaged, urban and countryside - framed by the large scale economic transformations that affected workers throughout American history.

Exploring major themes such as the transition of slavery to free labor, the denigration of women's housework, technological advances and the rise of the global assembly line, this book demonstrates how in response to these changes, workers have reconfigured themselves according to their race, gender, ethnicity and task. From the antebellum American Labor Movement to worksites found today in Las Vegas hotels and casinos, this brief synthesis by an award-winning historian will provide an unparalleled account of the social history of work for students of American history and general readers alike.

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In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life: work. Beginning with the seventeenth century, A Social History of the Laboring Classes examines broadly all types of workers - the waged and unwaged, urban and countryside - framed by the large scale economic transformations that affected workers throughout American history.

Exploring major themes such as the transition of slavery to free labor, the denigration of women's housework, technological advances and the rise of the global assembly line, this book demonstrates how in response to these changes, workers have reconfigured themselves according to their race, gender, ethnicity and task. From the antebellum American Labor Movement to worksites found today in Las Vegas hotels and casinos, this brief synthesis by an award-winning historian will provide an unparalleled account of the social history of work for students of American history and general readers alike.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631207708
ISBN 13 
9780631207702
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
259