Worker and Community Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850-1884

Greenberg, Brian

ISBN 10: 088706048X / ISBN 13: 9780887060489

Edité par Albany : State University Of New York Press, 1985

A propos de cet article

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 227 pages; Description: ix, 227 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Working class --New York (State) --Albany --History --19th century --Industrialization --Industrial relations --Convict labor 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Worker and Community Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850-1884
• Éditeur: Albany : State University Of New York Press
• Date de parution: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 088706048X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780887060489
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Worker and Community focuses on the social and cultural impact of industrialization in Albany, New York during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. More than a local study, it uses Albany as a laboratory in which to examine this important force in social history.

The study looks first at the full range of economic actions in which the city’s workers participated between 1850 and 1884—organized strikes, labor riots, public demonstrations, and reform movements. It also examines community influences as workers defined themselves in part through affiliation with a particular ethnic group, church, fraternal society, and political party. The worker’s struggle against prison contract labor, as discussed in Greenberg’s text, reveals acceptance of the free labor tradition along with an emerging interest-group consciousness.

À propos de l?auteur

Brian Greenberg is Assistant Professor of History/Coordinator at the University of Delaware and the Hagley Museum and Library.