Working in the Americas – serie
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Confronting Decline
The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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The rise of the United States to a position of global leadership and power rested initially on the outcome of the Industrial Revolution. Yet as early as the 1920s, important American industries were in decline in the places where they had originally flourished.The decline of traditional …
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since 1945
Av Robert Cassanello, Colin J. Davis
Häftad, 2026
294 kr
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Essays from scholars of labor and migration that examine changes in the Southern workplace after World War IIIn the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the American South became very diverse very quickly. New businesses and job opportunities in the region drove this growth, brought an …
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood
Av Dennis Broe
Inbunden, 2009
814 kr
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Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.By following the evolution of …
Americanization in the States
Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929
Av Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson
Inbunden, 2009
734 kr
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, a number of states had bureaus whose responsibility was to help immigrants assimilate into American society. Often described negatively as efforts to force foreigners into appropriate molds, Christina Ziegler-McPherson demonstrates that these programs …
