Eight Hours for What We Will : Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
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Title
Eight Hours for What We Will : Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
Description
Study of the off-hours lives of working-class people in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Workers' hobbies, their hangouts, and the impact of their leisure on the workplace and politics in the immigration era. A fresh social history of working-class people not confined to the work space. From Cambridge University Press: "In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the neighborhood park, the fraternal lodge hall, the amusement park, and the nickelodeon had a good deal of bearing on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the voting booths of America's industrial communities."
Creator
Rosenzweig, Roy
Source
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date
2002 (1983)
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
1870-1920; Worcester, Massachusetts
Contribution Form
Zotero
ISBN
9780521313971
Call Number
Edition
2nd
Num Pages
304
Place
New York, New York
Series
Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history