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Getting Inside the World of Industrial Workers: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

John Bodnar
John Bodnar
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Indiana University
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 22 , Fall 1982 , pp. 18 - 27
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1982

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1. In addition to the works reviewed here, this newer scholarship on American laborers can be gleaned in part from studies such as Corbin, David Alan. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners. 1880–1922 (Urbana, Ill., 1981)Google Scholar: Bukowczyk, John J.. “Steeples and Smokestacks: Class, Religion, and Ideology in the Polish Immigrant Settlements in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1880–1929” (unpub. Ph.D. thesis. Harvard University. 1980)Google Scholar; Barrett, James R.. “Work and Community in the ‘Jungle’: Chicago's Packing House Workers, 1891–1922” (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1981)Google Scholar; Gabaccia, Donna R.. “Houses and People” (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Michigan, 1980)Google Scholar; Bodnar, John, Simon, Roger, and Weber, Michael. Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900–1960 (Urbana. Ill., 1982)Google Scholar; Bodnar, . Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society (Baltimore, 1982)Google Scholar; Green, James R.. The World of the Worker, Labor in Twentieth-Century America (New York, 1980)Google Scholar; Walkowitz, Daniel J., Worker City. Company Town (Urbana. Ill., 1978)Google Scholar: and Cumbler, John T.. Working-Class Community in Industrial America (Westport. Ct., 1979).Google Scholar

2. Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (New York, 1977).Google Scholar

3. Montgomery, David, Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work. Technology, and Labor Struggles (Cambridge, Eng., 1979).Google Scholar

4. Ibid.

5. See the various selections in Perspectives in American History, 7 (1973).Google Scholar

6. See Haines, Michael, Fertility and Occupation: Population Patterns in Industrialization (New York, 1979).Google Scholar

7. See Taft, Philip, The A. F. of L. in the Time of Gompers (New York, 1957)Google Scholar and Sombart, Werner, Why is There No Socialism in the United States? (reprint, London, 1976).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8. See Bodnar, , op. cit.Google Scholar

9. See Arieti, Silvano, Interpretation of Schizophrenia (New York, 1974), 496–99Google Scholar; Pollock, H., Malzberg, B., and Fuller, R., Hereditary and Environmental Factors in the Causation of Manic-Depressive Psychoses and Dementia Praecox (Utica, N.Y., 1939).Google Scholar These ideas are developed in a yet to be published paper: Bodnar, , “The Family Economy and Labor Protest in Industrial America: Hard Coal Miners in the 1930's.”Google Scholar