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Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse : Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization /

"This book explores how the convergence of American industrialization and the influx of immigrant workers helped to define the frequently-contentious labor and ethnic relations during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zeidel, Robert F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : capitalists and immigrants in historical perspective, 1865-1924
  • Harmonic dissidence : immigrants and the onset of industrial strife
  • No danger among them : Asian immigrants as industrial workers
  • Alien anarchism : immigrants and industrial unrest in the 1880s
  • Confronting the barons : immigrant workers and individual moguls
  • Into the new century : economic expansion and continued discord
  • Turmoil amidst reform : immigrant worker protest and progressivism
  • Effects of war : immigrant labor dynamics during the Great War
  • Addressing the reds : immigrants and the postwar great scare of 1919-1921
  • Restricting the hordes : implementation of immigrant quotas.