German Workers in Chicago
Subtitle: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (Working Class in American History)
Contributors: Hartmut Keil (Editor); John Jentz (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 1, 1988
Language: eng; ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780252014581
Subjects: American history; History Of Labor; Sociology; History: American; The Americas; General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); Chicago; Employment; German Americans; History; Illinois; Social life and customs; Sources; Working class
First sentence: In the second half of the nineteenth century Chicago was as much a center for the arrival and transshipment of immigrants as any East Coast seaport, with the only difference that the immigrants arrived by land.