Their Lives and Numbers : : The Condition of Working People in Massachusetts, 1870–1900 / / ed. by Henry F. Bedford.
In late nineteenth-century America, the social and economic changes that accompanied industrialization aroused intense public debate. Gathering information from workers, families, and employers, the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor undertook the first state-sponsored investigations of liv...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Documents in American Social History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 21 b&w photographs, 1 drawing, 52 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction: “The Labor Question”
- 1. In Their Own Words
- 2. Income and Expense
- 3. Money in the Bank
- 4. Race and National Origin
- 5. Women at Work
- 6. The Education and Employment of Youth
- 7. Rooms for Rent
- 8. Criminals, Paupers, and Strong Drink
- 9. Arbitration, Cooperation, Legislation, and Organization
- 10. “A State of War”
- Index