Plain Folk

The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans

Häftad, Engelska, 1982

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Beskrivning

Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1982-02-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252009068

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

David M. Katzman and William M. Tuttle, Jr., are professors of history at the University of Kansas. Katzman is the author of Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America and Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century. Tuttle is the author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.

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@KATZMAN\Plain Folk@"Remarkable stories of fortitude, ambition, and resignation. Their style is vivid and concrete... The female autobiographers work longer hours, and the black female domestics longest of all." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly