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Robber barons and wretched refuse : ethnic and class dynamics during the era of American industrialization / Robert F. Zeidel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501748325
  • 9781501748332
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD8081 .R633 2020
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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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"--

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