Working Class Life: The American Standard in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913 - Couverture rigide

Shergold, Peter R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822938022 ISBN 13 : 9780822938026

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982

Synopsis

This book challenges the commonly held theory that American workers had a far superior standard of living than their European counterparts in the early twentieth century. Peter R. Shergold bases his study on the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Birmingham, England, and compares statistical data on wage rates, labor hours, family income, retail prices, diet and budgets. He also presents information from medical investigators, travelers, charity workers, business organizations, diaries, speeches and a wide variety of other sources to breathe human life into his statistical data. Shergold reveals that skilled Americans did earn higher wages than the British, yet unskilled workers did not, while Americans worked longer hours, with a greater chance of injury, and had fewer social services.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter R. Shergold is Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Australia, and former Senior Lecturer in economic history at the University of New South Wales.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822938022
• ISBN 13: 9780822938026
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible