Life and labor
Subtitle: dimensions of American working-class history
By: edited by Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher
Series: SUNY series in American labor history; SUNY series in American labor history
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780585057521
Subjects: Working class; History; Industrial sociology; Labor unions; Travailleurs; Histoire; Sociologie industrielle; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Minority Studies; Arbeiders
Other titles: Life & labor
Notes: Cover title: Life & labor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-333) and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: Dimensions of American working-class history  -- Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher; title: From artisan to proletarian : the family and the vocational education of the shoemaker in the handicraft era  -- William Mulligan; title: Industrial ecology and the labor process : the redefinition of craft in New England textile machinery shops, 1820-1860  -- Thomas Leary; title: Worker and community : fraternal orders in Albany, New York, 1845-1885  -- Brian Greenberg; title: "There's plenty waitin' at the gates" : mobility, opportunity, and the American worker  -- Charles Stephenson; title: The dialectics of bureaucratization : the case of nineteenth-century American railway workers  -- Walter Light; title: Industrial safety and labor relations in the United States, 1865-1917  -- Robert Asher; title: The boycott and working-class solidarity in Toledo, Ohio in the 1890s  -- Gregory Zieren; title: Reforming working-class play : workers, parks, and playgrounds in an industrial city, 1870-1920  -- Roy Rosenzweig; title: Dance madness : New York City dance halls and working-class sexuality, 1900-1920  -- Kathy Peiss; title: Women workers, work culture, and collective action in the American cigar industry, 1900-1919  -- Patricia Cooper; title: Not so "turbulent years" : a new look at the 1930s  -- Melvyn Dubofsky; title: Fighting on the domestic front : Black steelworkers during World War II  -- Dennis Dickerson; title: Life at the Rouge : a cycle of workers' control  -- Nelson Lichtenstein; title: Office workers and machines : oral histories of Rhode Island working women -- Valerie Quinney.