04776nam 2200709 450 991046163910332120200520144314.00-520-96037-810.1525/9780520960374(CKB)3710000000465869(EBL)2025606(SSID)ssj0001543497(PQKBManifestationID)16134762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001543497(PQKBWorkID)14399665(PQKB)10644989(MiAaPQ)EBC2025606(DE-B1597)519921(OCoLC)972506277(DE-B1597)9780520960374(Au-PeEL)EBL2025606(CaPaEBR)ebr11092775(CaONFJC)MIL825407(OCoLC)919123886(EXLCZ)99371000000046586920170124h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe filth of progress immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West /Ryan DearingerFirst edition.Oakland, California :University of California Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28460-7 0-520-28459-3 Includes bibliographical references and index."Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress."In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad. Triumph transformed canal and railroad entrepreneurs into visionaries whose work brought the nation bountiful riches and did the Lord's bidding. Celebrated for their spirit and perseverance in 'building' the nation's infrastructure, they found respect for looking to tomorrow and creating a future. For generations, most indexes of American history supported and reinforced this narrative of progress. Yet, if this is the historical memory, it is conveniently stunted. What of those whose bodies strained and broke under the load of such glories? What of those men beyond the din and fanfare who only appear in old photographs with faces blurred and indistinguishable? In their lives and deaths in the mud, muck, and mountains is another history of American achievement. These barely visible and forgotten, ordinary men, 'unskilled' immigrants from Ireland and China, Mormons, and native-born American workingmen rank, as well, as the creators of national growth and progress. Their experiences and voices, along with those of the privileged and well-connected, are the subjects of this study. I examine the rise of Western canals and railroads to national prominence through the menial labor of countless men, largely hidden from view because they left virtually no paper trail, who strung together livelihoods at the economic fringes of society. This book examines the contest for control of American progress and history as distilled from the competing narratives of canal and railroad construction workers and those fortunate enough to avoid this fate"--Provided by publisher.Canal construction workersUnited StatesHistoryRailroad construction workersUnited StatesHistoryForeign workersUnited StatesHistoryCanalsUnited StatesHistoryRailroadsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Canal construction workersHistory.Railroad construction workersHistory.Foreign workersHistory.CanalsHistory.RailroadsHistory.331.6/20978Dearinger Ryan1979-1034945MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461639103321The filth of progress2454371UNINA02016nam0 22004453i 450 VAN0028335420250130122823.118N978303092843820241125d2022 |0itac50 baengCH|||| |||||i e bcrAdvances in Social SimulationProceedings of the 16th Social Simulation Conference, 20–24 September 2021Marcin Czupryna, Bogumił Kamiński editorsChamSpringer2022xvi, 470 p.ill.24 cm001VAN001332982001 Springer Proceedings in Complexity210 Berlin [etc.]Springer2013-90-XXOperations research, mathematical programming [MSC 2020]VANC025650MF91-XXGame theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences [MSC 2020]VANC025601MF93-XXSystems theory; control [MSC 2020]VANC027040MFAgent-based modellingKW:KComputational social sciencesKW:KMathematical ModelllingKW:KSocial SimulationKW:KSocial networksKW:KCHChamVANL001889CzuprynaMarcinVANV236766KamińskiBogumiłVANV236767Social Simulation Conference16.2021Cracow, PolandVANV2367681776186Springer <editore>VANV108073650ITSOL20250606RICAhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o ShibbolethBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICAIT-CE0120VAN08NVAN00283354BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICA08DLOAD e-Book 9888 08eMF9888 20241211 Advances in Social Simulation4292084UNICAMPANIA