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Farm and factory : workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990
- Title
- Farm and factory : workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990 / Daniel Nelson.
- Author
- Nelson, Daniel, 1941-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | HD8083.M53 N45 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 258 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Midwestern history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Midwestern history and culture.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Working class > Middle West > History > 19th century
- Working class > Middle West > History > 20th century
- Farmers > Middle West > History > 19th century
- Farmers > Middle West > History > 20th century
- Labor policy > Middle West > History > 20th century
- Economic history
- Farmers
- Labor policy
- Working class
- Arbeiter
- Industrie
- Landwirtschaft
- Geschichte 1880-1990
- Middle West > Economic conditions
- Middle West
- Mittlerer Westen
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-238) and index.
- Contents
- The midwestern worker at the end of the Nineteenth Century. Midwestern farmers, 1880-1900 -- Industrial workers, 1880-1900 -- White-collar workers, 1880-1900 -- Workers in a new economy, 1900-1930. Revolutions in production and work, 1900-1930 -- Urban workers in a revolutionary era, 1900-1930 -- Government and labor in the midwest, 1930-1953. A new deal for midwestern workers, 1930-1939 -- Change and continuity, 1939-1953 -- The decline and rebirth of the midwest. End of an era, 1953-1983 -- Afterword: work and workers in the 1980s.
- ISBN
- 0253328837
- 9780253328830
- LCCN
- 94045185
- OCLC
- ocm31608087
- 31608087
- SCSB-2073660
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library