Workers' World

Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940

By:

John Bodnar

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Industry and Society

Show Hide Adult Content

$100.00

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Free Delivery with Primate

Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $25.00 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $16.67 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 14-26 June using International Courier

Description

Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community relationships. In the past, Bodnar contends, American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes, the rise of unionism, and the struggle for control over the workplace. In an effort to mitigate historians' flattening of workers into the two-dimensional plane of politics and protest, Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers, coal miners, steelworkers, and others in Pennsylvania.

Author Biography:

John Bodnar is a distinguished and chancellor's professor in the Department of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He specializes in American social and cultural history.

Release date NZ

January 26th, 2020

Author

John Bodnar

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

226

Series

Studies in Industry and Society

ISBN-13

9781421433943

Product ID

31575574

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here