A social history of the laboring classes : from colonial times to the present / Jacqueline Jones.

Author/creator Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoMalden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Description250 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesProblems in American history
Problems in American history. ^A644332
Contents "Strangers" and other workers in the seventeenth-century colonies -- "Be sure to come free": workers in the eighteenth century -- Crosscurrents of slavery and freedom in the antebellum South -- The northern laboring classes at odds with one another, before and during the civil war -- Idealogies of race in a modernizing economy: the cases of African-American and Chinese workers -- The laboring classes in turn-of-the-century America -- The rise of the state in depression and war: the American workforce, 1916-1945 -- American workers and the new world order in the second half of the twentieth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-244) and index.
LCCN 98040544
ISBN0631207694 (alk. paper)
ISBN0631207708 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HD8066 .J66 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold