Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization
Author:   Robert F. Zeidel
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501748325


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   15 April 2020
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Author:   Robert F. Zeidel
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN:  

9781501748325


ISBN 10:   1501748327
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   15 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
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Introduction: Capitalists and Immigrants in Historical Perspective, 1865–1924 1. Harmonic Dissidence: Immigrants and the Onset of Industrial Strife 2. No Danger among Them: Asian Immigrants as Industrial Workers 3. Alien Anarchism: Immigrants and Industrial Unrest in the 1880s 4. Confronting the Barons: Immigrant Workers and Individual Moguls 5. Into the New Century: Economic Expansion and Continued Discord 6. Turmoil Amid Reform: Immigrant Worker Protest and Progressivism 7. Effects of War: Immigrant Labor Dynamics during the Great War 8. Addressing the Reds: Immigrants and the Postwar Great Scare of 1919–1921 9. Restricting the Hordes: Implementation of Immigrant Quotas Epilogue

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Zeidel presents a detailed account of a great swath of American society whose dynamics remain pertinent today. Recommended. * Choice *


Zeidel presents a detailed account of a great swath of American society whose dynamics remain pertinent today. Recommended. * Choice *


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Robert F. Zeidel is Professor of History and Associate Dean at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is the author of Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics.

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