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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524706103321

Autore

Bodnar John E. <1944->

Titolo

Workers' World : Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940 / / John Bodnar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 1982

©1982

ISBN

0-8018-2785-X

1-4214-3394-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in industry and society ; ; 2

Soggetti

Arbeiter

Arbeidersklasse

Working class

Social history

Labor unions

Emigration and immigration

Syndicats - Pennsylvanie - Histoire - 20e siecle

Travailleurs - Pennsylvanie - Histoire - 20e siecle

Labor unions - Pennsylvania - History - 20th century

Working class - Pennsylvania - History - 20th century

History

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvanie Conditions sociales

Pennsylvanie Émigration et immigration Histoire 20e siecle

Pennsylvania Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Pennsylvania Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Kinship: The Ties That Bind -- Part II. The



Enclave: A World Within a World -- Part III. Organizing in the Thirties: Defending the Workers' World -- Conclusion: Culture and Protest -- A Note on Sources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community relationships. In the past, Bodnar contends, American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes, the rise of unionism, and the struggle for control over the workplace. In an effort to mitigate historians' flattening of workers into the two-dimensional plane of politics and protest, Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers, coal miners, steelworkers, and others in Pennsylvania.