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Zusatztext "A lively! knowledgeable book about the state of labor in the years prior to the New Deal. The author has accomplished an expert blend of illustrative detail and meaningful summary reliable in scholarship and shorn of pedantry and pretense." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "A skillful blending of economic activity! legislative inactivity! biographical sketches! and the increasing demoralization of the worker and labor organization." --The Journal of Economic History "An unusually perceptive dissection." Informationen zum Autor Frances Fox Piven is faculty at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of several books on the social history of the Great Depression, including Regulating the Poor and Poor People's Movements, co-authored with Richard Cloward. More recently, she has written The War at Home, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, and Keeping the Black Vote Down. Klappentext A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression. Vorwort We plan to market this title extensively in the fields of labor history and sociology specifically, including advertising in important labor history, American history, and sociology journals; exhibiting at academic conferences, and advertising through listserves and websites important to the disciplines. Given the subject of the book's close parallels to the contemporary economic situation, we also think this title can reach a general readership. We will print and web advertise in a number of progressive publications, as well as in important magazines and journals that reach a scholarly audience. Zusammenfassung The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the “roaring twenties” looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to police violence and repression. ...

Product details

• Authors: Irving Bernstein, Bernstein Irving, Frances Fox Piven, Piven Frances Fox
• Assisted by: Frances Fox Piven (Introduction)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9781608460632
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-063-2
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrial relations & safety