Their Lives and Numbers
The Condition of Working People in Massachusetts, 1870-1900
In late nineteenth-century America, the social and economic changes that accompanied industrialization aroused intense public debate. Gathering information from workers, families, and employers, the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor undertook the first state-sponsored investigations of living and working conditions in America. Introduced in 1870, the bureau's annual reports were widely read and often cited in discussions of problems collectively known as the labor question. Their Lives and Numbers brings together narrative and statistical documents from the bureau's first thirty years, providing a detailed picture of the experience…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-3335-2
- EAN: 9781501733352
- Produktnummer: 31347085
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 21 b&w photographs, 1 drawing, 52 tables
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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edited by Henry F. Bedford
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