The Working Class and Its Culture

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321903
• ISBN10: 0815321902
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
"Nothing on Compulsion": Life Styles of Philadelphia Artisans, 1820-1850	p. 1
The City and Community: The Impact of Urban Forces on Working Class Behavior	p. 31
Household and Market Production of Families in a Late Nineteenth Century American City	p. 47
"The Clerking Sisterhood": Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890-1960	p. 69
Employment Opportunities for Blacks in the Black Ghetto: The Role of White-Owned Businesses	p. 85
The Office in Metropolis: An Opportunity for Shaping Metropolitan America	p. 109
Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us"	p. 127
Working-Class Culture and Politics in the Industrial Revolution: Sources of Loyalism and Rebellion	p. 146
The Labor Boycott in New York City, 1880-1886	p. 162
The Political Origins of the United Hebrew Trades, 1888	p. 209
Labor, Capital, and Community: The Struggle for Power	p. 241
Working Class Unity and Ethnic Division: Cincinnati Trade Unionists and Cultural Pluralism	p. 263
Working on El Traque: The Pacific Electric Strike of 1903	p. 286
Socialist Women and the "Girl Strikers," Chicago, 1910	p. 299
The Battle for the Eight-Hour Day in San Francisco	p. 312
Painful Memories: The Historical Consciousness of Steelworkers and the Steel Strike of 1919	p. 325
The "Rank and File Movement" in Private Social Work	p. 352
Local Government Labor Relations in Transition: The Case of Los Angeles	p. 373
Acknowledgments	p. 397
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