| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910155065503321 |
|
|
Autore |
Mackaman Thomas <1975-> |
|
|
Titolo |
New immigrants and the radicalization of American labor, 1914-1924 / / Thomas Mackaman |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, , [2017] |
|
©2017 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (219 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Foreign workers - United States - History - 20th century |
Immigrants - United States - History - 20th century |
Working class - United States - History - 20th century |
Labor movement - United States - History - 20th century |
Radicalism - United States - History - 20th century |
Industries - United States - History - 20th century |
Social change - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
United States Economic policy To 1933 |
United States Ethnic relations History 20th century |
United States Emigration and immigration History 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Introduction: "Got a match?" -- "Our lives, our thoughts and our allegiance" : new immigrants in 1914 -- "A war of coal and iron" : 1914-1917 -- Securing "the industrial forts of America" : 1917-1918 -- "The revolt of the rank-and-file" : 1919 -- A double envelopment of reaction : 1920-1924 -- Epilogue: The nation-state, immigration restriction and Fordism. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
"By 1914, millions of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and indoctrination of immigrant populations with labor |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
movement ideology. In response, government and industry developed the 1924 National Origins Act, forever changing the American industrial society"-- |
|
|
|
|
|
| |