The Work Ethic In Industrial America 1850 1920

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226136233
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase “a strong work ethic” conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America’s Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually undergone multiple transformations over the centuries. And few eras saw a more radical shift in labor ideology than the American industrial age. Daniel T. Rodgers masterfully explores the ways in which the eclipse of small-scale workshops by mechanized production and mass consumption triggered far-reaching shifts in perceptions of labor, leisure, and personal success. He also shows how the new work culture permeated society, including literature, politics, the emerging feminist movement, and the labor movement. A staple of courses in the history of American labor and industrial society, Rodgers’s sharp analysis is sure to find a new audience, as twenty-first-century workers face another shift brought about by technology. The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850–1920 is a classic with critical relevance in today’s volatile economic times.

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226723496
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rodgers's book is a study of how technology affects ideas. That is the issue to which Rodgers always returns: how did men and women react to the economy of unprecedented plenty that the 19th-century revolution in power and machines had produced? . . . This is certainly . . . one of the most refreshing and penetrating analyses of the relation of diverse levels of 19th-century culture that it has been my pleasure to read in a long time."—Carl N. Degler, Science

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613637X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the rise of machines changed the way we think about work—and about success. The phrase “a strong work ethic” conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America’s Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually undergone multiple transformations over the centuries. And few eras saw a more radical shift than the American industrial age. Daniel T. Rodgers masterfully explores the ways in which the eclipse of small-scale workshops by mechanized production and mass consumption triggered far-reaching shifts in perceptions of labor, leisure, and personal success. He also shows how the new work culture permeated society, including literature, politics, the emerging feminist movement, and the labor movement. A staple of courses in the history of American labor and industrial society, Rodgers’s sharp analysis is as relevant as ever as twenty-first-century workers face another shift brought about by technology. The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850–1920 is a classic with critical relevance in today’s volatile economic times.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118537823
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability Explores topics including urbanization, ethnicity, class, sport in educational institutions, women in sport, and sport’s role in manifesting city, regional, and national pride. Includes an entirely new chapter on the globalization of American sport Includes a new bank of photographs and images. Features a newly revised and updated Bibliographical Essay

Author : Herbert Applebaum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030103
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force written by Herbert Applebaum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, and occupation. Considering such diverse groups as Colonial craftsmen, slaves, 19th century women, and 20th century factory workers, this book provides a history of the American work ethic from Colonial times to the present. Tracing both continuities and differences, the book is divided into sections on the Colonial era, the 19th century and the 20th century and includes chapters on both major occupational groups, such as farmers, factory workers, laborers, and gender, racial, and ethnic minorities. This approach, which covers all major groups in U.S. history, enables the reader to discern how the work ethic applied to different occupational and ethnic groups over time. The book subjects the work ethic to an analysis based on historical, sociological, economic, and anthropological perspectives and provides an analysis of current thinking about how the work ethic applied to various groups and classes in different historical periods.

Author : Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195142341
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working at Play written by Cindy Sondik Aron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon

Author : Adrian Furnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000442993
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Protestant Work Ethic written by Adrian Furnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and explicitly psychological account of the Protestant Work Ethic. Includes an insight into the effects of the PWE in the workplace today, as well as its future in a changing world.

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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Author : Madelon Powers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226677682
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces Along the Bar written by Madelon Powers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powers examines the lives of saloongoers across America, including those in major cities such as New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco as well as smaller cities such as Sioux City, Shoshone, and Oakland.

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415968267
Total Pages : 1734 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History written by Eric Arnesen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description