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Author: Robert P. Wolensky (Katz Distinguished Professor, Univ. Wisconsin, Stevens Point)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780271084985
ISBN 10: 0271084987
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 14 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York
An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New YorkThe Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York
A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century Taking the measure, Wolensky has produced a valuable and informative work. It will serve as an important primary source, giving insights into not only the Wyoming Valley but also eastern Pennsylvania, its economy, its people, and the mores of the era it covers. -Richard P. Mulcahy, Pennsylvania History
An important contribution to US labor history and twentieth-century US history. The interviews offer nuanced views and multiple perspectives on labor struggles in the region, offering particularly new and valuable views of the influence of geography on industrial development and the growth of the trade union movement and showing why we need a broad view to understand even local industrial history. -Thomas Dublin, author of The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century A detailed yet readable study of the lives of the garment industry. This is a fine social history of ordinary people that brings the past to life. -Richard A. Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy In Progressive Era New York
Author Information
Robert P. Wolensky is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and Adjunct Professor of History at King’s College, Wilkes-Barre. He is the coauthor of Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania, also published by Penn State University Press.
