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Zusatztext "Everthing important is here! presented in an even-handed! objective way." --Journal of American History "A broad panorama in brilliant prose." --American Historical Review 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 The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians. 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 "A broad panorama in brilliant prose." — American Historical Review In this groundbreaking work of labor history, Irving Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power, and socialism became the rallying cry for millions of workers in the fields, mills, mines, and factories of America. With an introduction by Frances Fox Piven.

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: 9781608460649
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-064-9
• No. of pages: 880
• 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