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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger
| The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger |
| Autore | Dearinger Ryan <1979-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/20978 |
| Soggetto topico |
Canal construction workers - United States - History
Railroad construction workers - United States - History Foreign workers - United States - History Canals - United States - History Railroads - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century american history
19th century american immigrants american empire american history american west canals capitalism central pacific railroad chinese construction workers continental empire cultural studies erie canal history immigrants immigration irish labor studies labor mormons narrative of progress national infrastructure rail travel railroads suffering survival technology union pacific railroad united states of america westward expansion workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-96037-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797577403321 |
Dearinger Ryan <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger
| The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger |
| Autore | Dearinger Ryan <1979-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/20978 |
| Soggetto topico |
Canal construction workers - United States - History
Railroad construction workers - United States - History Foreign workers - United States - History Canals - United States - History Railroads - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century american history
19th century american immigrants american empire american history american west canals capitalism central pacific railroad chinese construction workers continental empire cultural studies erie canal history immigrants immigration irish labor studies labor mormons narrative of progress national infrastructure rail travel railroads suffering survival technology union pacific railroad united states of america westward expansion workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-96037-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810482903321 |
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Dearinger Ryan <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The last titan [[electronic resource] ] : a life of Theodore Dreiser / / Jerome Loving
| The last titan [[electronic resource] ] : a life of Theodore Dreiser / / Jerome Loving |
| Autore | Loving Jerome <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (530 p.) |
| Disciplina |
813/.52
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Novelists, American - 20th century
Journalists - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american authors
american literature american novels biography class classics communism dreiser emerson emma goldman factory workers famous authors fbi fdr gender hawthorne hollywood immigration industrialists journalist labor movement literary celebrity literature lynchings mencken naturalism new woman nonfiction politics progressive era realism roaring 20s robber barons roosevelt sexual morality sexuality social change social commentary thoreau urban life western canon whitman workers rights |
| ISBN |
0-520-92911-X
1-59734-941-0 |
| Classificazione | HU 3525 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783317303321 |
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Loving Jerome <1941->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas
| On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas |
| Autore | Ribas Vanesa <1979-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/209756 |
| Soggetto topico |
Foreign workers - North Carolina - Social conditions
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - North Carolina - Employees - Social conditions African Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Hispanic Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Minorities - Employment - North Carolina Racism in the workplace - North Carolina |
| Soggetto non controllato |
african american
american worker contemporary american slaughterhouse corporate america deportation threats ethnographic research exploitation factory work factory family separation hard labor immigrant workers insider outsider status labor protection labor studies labor latina workers latino workers medical attention migrant workers minority workforce native born americans new south racial tensions slaughterhouse struggles united states of america white dominance workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-95882-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South -- 2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South -- 3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk -- 4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment -- 5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace -- 6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination -- 7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work -- 8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797753003321 |
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Ribas Vanesa <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas
| On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas |
| Autore | Ribas Vanesa <1979-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/209756 |
| Soggetto topico |
Foreign workers - North Carolina - Social conditions
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - North Carolina - Employees - Social conditions African Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Hispanic Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Minorities - Employment - North Carolina Racism in the workplace - North Carolina |
| Soggetto non controllato |
african american
american worker contemporary american slaughterhouse corporate america deportation threats ethnographic research exploitation factory work factory family separation hard labor immigrant workers insider outsider status labor protection labor studies labor latina workers latino workers medical attention migrant workers minority workforce native born americans new south racial tensions slaughterhouse struggles united states of america white dominance workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-95882-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South -- 2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South -- 3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk -- 4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment -- 5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace -- 6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination -- 7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work -- 8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808604703321 |
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Ribas Vanesa <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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