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

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

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who comprised many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Zeidel, Robert F.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Capitalists and Immigrants in Historical Perspective, 1865–1924
  • 1. Harmonic Dissidence: Immigrants and the Onset of Industrial Strife
  • 2. No Danger among Them: Asian Immigrants as Industrial Workers
  • 3. Alien Anarchism: Immigrants and Industrial Unrest in the 1880s
  • 4. Confronting the Barons: Immigrant Workers and Individual Moguls
  • 5. Into the New Century: Economic Expansion and Continued Discord
  • 6. Turmoil Amid Reform: Immigrant Worker Protest and Progressivism
  • 7. Effects of War: Immigrant Labor Dynamics during the Great War
  • 8. Addressing the Reds: Immigrants and the Postwar Great Scare of 1919–1921
  • 9. Restricting the Hordes: Implementation of Immigrant Quotas
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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