Pictorial History Of American Labor
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0517172046
ISBN 13
9780517172049
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1988
Publisher
Pages
341
Description
over 750 illustrations; many rare, including woodcuts, drawings, documents, portraits and photographs.
Beginning with the founding of the nation, Cahn details the period when indentured servants worked endless hours in the field, the first black slaves were brought to America, and the tobacco growing was this country's chief industry. He describes the way that new industries grew up in the young nation, accompanied by low wages and repressive laws that kept workers in their palce; the transition from an agrarian economy to an industrial one; the beginning of mass production and the resultant exploitation, disillusionment, and the loss of human values. - from Amzon
Beginning with the founding of the nation, Cahn details the period when indentured servants worked endless hours in the field, the first black slaves were brought to America, and the tobacco growing was this country's chief industry. He describes the way that new industries grew up in the young nation, accompanied by low wages and repressive laws that kept workers in their palce; the transition from an agrarian economy to an industrial one; the beginning of mass production and the resultant exploitation, disillusionment, and the loss of human values. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
