Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History (American Labor History (Dis)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887061729 ISBN 13: 9780887061721

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1986

Synopsis

Life and Labor brings together the most stimulating scholarship in the field of labor history today. Its fifteen essays explore the impact of industrialization and technology on the lives of working people and their responses to the changes in society over the past one-hundred-fifty years. Focusing on the everyday life of working-class Americans, it discusses such topics as production technology, occupational mobility, industrial violence, working women, resistance to exploitation, fraternal organizations, and social and leisure-time activities.

The essays are written in a lively manner accessible to an undergraduate audience and also provide insights and a solid background for graduate students and scholars in the field of American labor and social history. The book presents the work of members of the generation of labor and social historians who matured in the 1970s and who are now establishing themselves as leaders in their fields.

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About the Author

Charles Stephenson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University. Robert Asher is Associate Professor at The University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887061729
• ISBN 13: 9780887061721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Stephenson Charles, Asher Robert