num_pages: 352
description: Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
language: English
title: Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton Legacy Library, 660)
ratings_count: 7
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
publisher: Princeton University Press