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Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940
Bodnars central concern in this book is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since workers could not rely on unionism or governmentsponsored safety nets workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties job structures and community relationships In the past Bodnar contends American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes the rise of unionism and the struggle for control over the workplace In an effort to mitigate historians flattening of workers into the twodimensional plane of politics and protest Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers coal miners steelworkers and others in Pennsylvania
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