Title: Brass Valley
First published: 1982
Description: For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their efforts for a better life. What is hidden from them is their own legacy, the heritage of culture and struggle handed on from other generations of working people. This book represents a new approach to history. It attempts to pass on that history from one group of workers to other workers, especially as workers and unions are at a crossroads, facing deteriorating conditions and even the permanent loss of jobs. But workers have faced these problems before, and surmounted them. This book can help all understand that our collective history helps us to face the challenges of the present and ones yet unknown of tomorrow. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Ethnology, Labor unions, Employees, American Brass Company, Economic conditions, Interviews, Social conditions, Brass industry and trade, Biography, History, Connecticut, Naugatuck River Valley, Trade-unions, Labor unions, united states, Ethnology, united states, Connecticut, social conditions, Connecticut, economic conditions, Connecticut, biography, Immigrants, Employment, Political activity, Religious life, Women, Labor movement, Women in the labor movement
Places: Connecticut, Naugatuck River Valley, Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.)
LC classification: HD9539.B8 U538 1982