num_pages: 312
description: Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities. 
language: English
title: Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
titlecomplete: Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 (Working Class in American History)
genres: History, Labor
ratings_count: 11
places: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
series: The Working Class in American History
publisher: University of Illinois Press