Eight Hours for What We Will - Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920

Sommario

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Workers in an industrial city, 1870-1920; Part II. Culture: The Working-Class World of the Late Nineteenth-Century: 2. The rise of the saloon; 3. Immigrant workers and the fourth of july; Part III. Conflict: Struggles Over Working-Class Leisure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: 4. The struggle over the saloon, 1870-1910; 5. The struggle over recreational space: the development of parks and playgrounds; 6. The struggle over the fourth: the safe and sane july fourth movement and the immigrant working class; Part IV. Culture, Conflict, and Change: The Working-Class World of the Early Twentieth Century: 7. The commercialization of leisure: the rise of a leisure market and the persistence of the saloon; 8. From rum shop to Rialto: workers and movies; Conclusion; Abbreviations used in notes; Notes; A note on sources; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roy Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig Roy
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert Fogel (Editore), Stephan Thernstrom (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.1985
• EAN: 9780521313971
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31397-1
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas