The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925
#2464 of 3,809 books · #815 in History
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for History (1988).
By studying the ways in which American industrial workers mobilized concerted action in their own interest, the author focuses on the workplace itself, examining the codes of conduct developed by different types of workers and the connections between their activity at work and their national origins and neighborhood life.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780521225793
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Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(1988)
Other awarded books from David Montgomery
- Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (2018)0 wins · 2 score
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