Bread--and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor, 1865-1915Penguin Publishing Group, 1977 - 231 стор. A documented account of the growth of the American labor movement from the Civil War to World War I. Examines labor conditions resulting from the change to mass production in mine, mill, and railroad; child labor; women workers; tenement life and sweatshops as contrasted to the life of the rich in the Gilded Age; and the strikes that made the union a permanent institution. |
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... was a revolution whose seeds had been planted a generation earlier . Even before the war the merchants of the big Atlantic seaports had backed railroad construc- tion to reach the markets of the Ohio valley . 3 Revolution by Machine.
... was a revolution whose seeds had been planted a generation earlier . Even before the war the merchants of the big Atlantic seaports had backed railroad construc- tion to reach the markets of the Ohio valley . 3 Revolution by Machine.
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... machine Take the proposi- tion of a man operating a machine to nail on 40 to 60 cases of heels in a day . That is 2,400 pairs , 4,800 shoes , in a day . One not accustomed to it would wonder how a man could pick up and lay down 4,800 ...
... machine Take the proposi- tion of a man operating a machine to nail on 40 to 60 cases of heels in a day . That is 2,400 pairs , 4,800 shoes , in a day . One not accustomed to it would wonder how a man could pick up and lay down 4,800 ...
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... machine and as soon as a skirt is done it is laid on the other side of the machine · · The machines go like mad all day , because the faster you work the more money you get . Sometimes in my haste I get my finger caught and the needle ...
... machine and as soon as a skirt is done it is laid on the other side of the machine · · The machines go like mad all day , because the faster you work the more money you get . Sometimes in my haste I get my finger caught and the needle ...
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Revolution by Machine | 3 |
Only Bread and Nothing More? | 6 |
Children in the Mills | 26 |
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