American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s
Subtitle: Recent European Research (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 1, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780252009631
Subjects: American history; Elements In The U.S. Population; History Of Labor; Sociology; USA; Minority Studies - General; Business & Economics / Labor; Congresses; European Americans; History; Immigrants; United States; Working class
First sentence: A few weeks after the end of the great railroad strike in 1877, the New York Labor Standard, organ of the Socialistic Labor party, indicated what it felt was the main lesson to be derived from the upsurge: "The strike has taught the Government and the people that there is a labor question, a wage labor problem seeking solution."