Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (Working Class in American History). This item is unavailable.
37 ratings by Goodreads
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, 2002
- Softcover
- Used
Unavailable
Softcover
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 3.10
Item description from seller
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
Seller Inventory # S_453318612
- Title
- Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (Working Class in American History)
- Author
- Barrett, James R.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252061365
- ISBN 13
- 9780252061363
Mythologized by Upton Sinclair as hopeless, Chicago's packinghouse workers were in fact active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial America. James R. Barrett's award-winning study explores how the lives and neighborhoods of packinghouse workers convey the experience of mass production work, the quality of working class life, the process of class formation and fragmentation, the effects of unionization, and the changing character of class relations. Merging history and analysis with contemporary social surveys and a computer-assisted analysis of census data, Barrett delves into a wide range of social, economic, and cultural factors that resulted in class cohesion and fragmentation.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
James R. Barrett is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism and The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (Working Class in American History)
There are 28 more copies of this bookView all results