The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire : The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life
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The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire : The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life
Description
An essay on how Manchester, New Hampshire, mill workers "[adapted] to industrial conditions" in the early twentieth century, taking special consideration for the relationships between work, ethnicity, family, and their influences upon one another (250). A certain history of the Amoskeag Corporation of Manchester - its programs of worker welfare and efficiency, their effectiveness, the populations of workers to which they were directed, and their identifiable ambivalence toward ethnic diversity. Worker agency in an industrial milieu: the mobility of laborers and their families between Manchester and other New England industrial communities; the importance of ethnicity and kinship ties in the workplace. The sources and impacts of the labor strike at Amoskeag in 1922.
Creator
Hareven, Tamara K.
Date
1975 spring
Language
en
Type
Journal Article
Coverage
Early 20th century; Manchester, New Hampshire
Contribution Form
Zotero
ISSN
1469-9702 (online), 0023-656X (print)
Issue
2
Pages
249-265
Publication Title
Labor History
Volume
16
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