Life and Labor

Charles Stephenson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University. Robert Asher is Associate Professor at The University of Connecticut, Storrs.

• A Note to StudentsAcknowledgmentsCHAPTER 1.Dimensions of American Working-Class HistoryCHARLES STEPHENSON AND ROBERT ASHERCHAPTER 2.From Artisan to Proletarian: The Family and the Vocational Education of the Shoemaker in the Handicraft EraWILLIAM MULLIGANCHAPTER 3.Industrial Ecology and the Labor Process: The Redefinition of Craft in New England Textile Machinery Shops, 1820-1860THOMAS LEARYCHAPTER 4.Worker and Community: Fraternal Orders in Albany, New York, 1845-1885BRIAN GREENBERGCHAPTER 5."There's Plenty Waitin' at the Gates": Mobility, Opportunity, and the American WorkerCHARLES STEPHENSONCHAPTER 6.The Dialectics of Bureaucratization: The Case of Nineteenth-Century American Railway WorkersWALTER LICHTCHAPTER 7.Industrial Safety and Labor Relations in the United States, 1865-1917ROBERT ASHERCHAPTER 8.The Boycott and Working-Class Solidarity in Toledo, Ohio in the 1890sGREGORY ZIERENCHAPTER 9.Reforming Working-Class Play: Workers, Parks, and Playgrounds in an Industrial City, 1870-1920ROY ROSENZWEIGCHAPTER 10.Dance Madness: New York City Dance Halls and Working-Class Sexuality, 1900-1920KATHY PEISSCHAPTER 11.Women Workers, Work Culture, and Collective Action in The American Cigar Industry, 1900-1919PATRICIA COOPERCHAPTER 12.Not So "Turbulent Years": A New Look at the 1930sMELVYN DUBOFSKYCHAPTER.13 Fighting on the Domestic Front: Black Steelworkers During World War IIDENNIS DICKERSONCHAPTER 14.Life at the Rouge: A Cycle of Workers' ControlNELSON LICHTENSTEINCHAPTER 15.Office Workers and Machines: Oral Histories of Rhode Island Working WomenVALERIE QUINNEYNotesAuthors' BiographiesIndex

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