ISBN:
9781501748318
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 289 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zeidel, Robert F Robber barons and wretched refuse
DDC:
331.6/20973
Keywords:
Arbeitsmigranten
;
Industrialisierung
;
Arbeitsbeziehungen
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Unternehmer
;
USA
;
Foreign workers History
;
Industrialization Social aspects
;
History
;
Working class History
;
Industrial relations History
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
History
;
USA
;
Industrialisierung
;
Arbeiterklasse
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
Abstract:
Introduction : capitalists and immigrants in historical perspective, 1865- -- 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 -- Restricting the hordes : implementation of immigrant quotas.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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