Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900

Oestreicher, Richard

ISBN 10: 0252061209 / ISBN 13: 9780252061202

Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1989

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8vo, 263 pp., Working Class in American History series.

Seller Inventory # 120158

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252061209
• ISBN 13: 9780252061202
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.

About the Author

Richard Jules Oestreicher is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh.