Life and Labor

Life and Labor
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 0887061737
ISBN-13 : 9780887061738
Rating : 4/5 (738 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Life and Labor by : Charles Stephenson

Download or read book Life and Labor written by Charles Stephenson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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