Robber barons and wretched refuse : ethnic and class dynamics during the era of American industrialization /
Zeidel, Robert F.,
Robber barons and wretched refuse : ethnic and class dynamics during the era of American industrialization / Robert F. Zeidel. - Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : capitalists and immigrants in historical perspective, 1865-1924 -- Harmonic dissidence : immigrants and the onset of industrial strife -- No danger among them : Asian immigrants as industrial workers -- Alien anarchism : immigrants and industrial unrest in the 1880s -- Confronting the barons : immigrant workers and individual moguls -- Into the new century : economic expansion and continued discord -- Turmoil amidst reform : immigrant worker protest and progressivism -- Effects of war : immigrant labor dynamics during the Great War -- Addressing the reds : immigrants and the postwar great scare of 1919-1921 -- Restricting the hordes : implementation of immigrant quotas.
"This book explores how the convergence of American industrialization and the influx of immigrant workers helped to define the frequently-contentious labor and ethnic relations during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"--
9781501748325 9781501748332
2019026760
Foreign workers--History.--United States
Industrialization--Social aspects--History.--United States
Working class--History.--United States
Industrial relations--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HD8081 / .R633 2020
Robber barons and wretched refuse : ethnic and class dynamics during the era of American industrialization / Robert F. Zeidel. - Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : capitalists and immigrants in historical perspective, 1865-1924 -- Harmonic dissidence : immigrants and the onset of industrial strife -- No danger among them : Asian immigrants as industrial workers -- Alien anarchism : immigrants and industrial unrest in the 1880s -- Confronting the barons : immigrant workers and individual moguls -- Into the new century : economic expansion and continued discord -- Turmoil amidst reform : immigrant worker protest and progressivism -- Effects of war : immigrant labor dynamics during the Great War -- Addressing the reds : immigrants and the postwar great scare of 1919-1921 -- Restricting the hordes : implementation of immigrant quotas.
"This book explores how the convergence of American industrialization and the influx of immigrant workers helped to define the frequently-contentious labor and ethnic relations during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"--
9781501748325 9781501748332
2019026760
Foreign workers--History.--United States
Industrialization--Social aspects--History.--United States
Working class--History.--United States
Industrial relations--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HD8081 / .R633 2020