Work Culture And Society In Industrializing America

Author : Herbert George Gutman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America written by Herbert George Gutman and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the significance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement."--Provided by publisher

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

Author : Frank W. Elwell
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrializing America written by Frank W. Elwell and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the risk it will scare students off, Elwell (sociology, Murray State U.) nevertheless begins with a chapter on social theory, and only tries to make it succinct and clear enough to get through. He then uses the theory to analyze industrial systems, particularly the advanced systems of the US. His topics include structures of authority, economic rationalization, the erosion of commitment, and factual regularities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Herbert George Gutman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America written by Herbert George Gutman and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the significance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement."--Provided by publisher

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 : Richard F. Teichgraeber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Culture written by Richard F. Teichgraeber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inclusive view of the formation of modern American culture. An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. Traditionally historians have told us that this sea change was the work of various elites intent on controlling the turmoil and divisions that accompanied the industrialization of the American economy. In Building Culture, Richard Teichgraeber rejects this hierarchical account to pursue one that highlights the multiplicity of attitudes and interests that were on display in America's first great effort to build national cultural institutions. Teichgraeber also lays the groundwork of a new interpretive framework for understanding this multisided effort. Most native-born American champions of "culture," he contends, viewed it as an authentically individualistic ideal. For them the concept continued to carry its antebellum meaning of self-culture--that is, individual self-development or self-improvement--and thus was quite resistant to closure around any single fixed definition of what being cultivated might mean. They also recognized that in America culture had to connect with the choices of ordinary men and women and therefore had to be fashioned to serve the uses of a democratic rather than an aristocratic society. To show how and why this inclusive view of culture was accompanied by a prodigious expansion of American cultural institutions, Teichgraeber also explores two of the central but still inadequately mapped developments in the intellectual and cultural history of the industrial era: the multifaceted--and ultimately successful--effort to secure Ralph Waldo Emerson a central place in American culture at large; and the growth and consolidation of the American university system, certainly the most important of the new cultural institutions built during the industrial era. Elegantly written and featuring twenty-two illustrations, Building Culture expands our knowledge of the formation of modern American culture and opens new paths of inquiry into contemporary cultural and intellectual concerns.

Author : Walter Licht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrializing America written by Walter Licht and published by . This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deft and elegantly written survey of the evolution of the nation's economy through the nineteenth century." -- Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego

Author : Charles William Calhoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742550384
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Charles William Calhoun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809058278
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Incorporation of America written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. This is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.

Author : Karin A. Shapiro
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867055
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New South Rebellion written by Karin A. Shapiro and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially sought to abolish the convict lease system through legal challenges and legislative lobbying. When nonviolent tactics failed to achieve reform, the predominantly white miners repeatedly seized control of the stockades and expelled the mostly black convicts from the mining districts. Insurrection hastened the demise of convict leasing in Tennessee, though at the cost of greatly weakening organized labor in the state's coal regions. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, A New South Rebellion brings to life the hopes that rural southerners invested in industrialization and the political tensions that could result when their aspirations were not met. Karin Shapiro skillfully analyzes the place of convict labor in southern economic development, the contested meanings of citizenship in late-nineteenth-century America, the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics, and the fluidity of race relations during the early years of Jim Crow.