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The Lean Years : A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 by Irving Bernstein

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ISBN
9781608460632

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Haymarket Books
ISBN-10
1608460630
ISBN-13
9781608460632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78885277

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lean Years : a History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economic Conditions
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
Irving Bernstein
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A lively, knowledgeable book about the state of labor in the years prior to the New Deal. The author has accomplished an expert blend of illustrative detail and meaningful summary reliable in scholarship and shorn of pedantry and pretense." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "A skillful blending of economic activity, legislative inactivity, biographical sketches, and the increasing demoralization of the worker and labor organization." --The Journal of Economic History "An unusually perceptive dissection."
Dewey Decimal
331.0973
Synopsis
A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression., "Pre-eminent among historians of labor history." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the "roaring twenties" looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to police violence and repression. Here, Irving Bernstein recaptures the social history of the decade leading up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration, uncovers its widespread inequality, and sheds light on the long-forgotten struggles that form the prelude to the great labor victories of the 1930s. "In other words, viewed from afar, most of the people who were suffering the hardships of the Depression were depressed and even ashamed, ready to blame themselves for their plight. But the train of developments that connects changes in social conditions to a changed consciousness is not simple. People, including ordinary people, harbor somewhere in their memories the building blocks of different and contradictory interpretations of what it is that is happening to them, of who should be blamed, and what can be done about it. Even the hangdog and ashamed unemployed worker who swings his lunch box and strides down the street so the neighbors will think he is going to a job can also have other ideas that only have to be evoked, and when they are make it possible for him on another day to rally with others and rise up in anger at his condition. --From the new introduction by Frances Fox Piven
LC Classification Number
HD8072

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