ONCE A CIGAR MAKER
Subtitle: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780252062575
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Social history; Careers - Job Almanacs; General; History / United States / 20th Century; History Of Labor; History - General History; History: American
First sentence: When thirteen-year-old Samuel Gompers arrived in New York City from London in July 1863, cigar manufacturing was a tiny U.S. industry, producing only about two hundred million cigars yearly and employing fewer than five thousand cigar makers.