Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class ...
In this book, Aihwa Ong captures the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences in the lives of Malay women and their families as they make the transition from peasant society to industrial production.
Bird discusses his feelings on all things, basketball and the work ethic or drive that makes him who he is. Also looks at his past, present, and future.
This work examines the impact of industrialization on the social development of the cotton manufacturing town of Oldham from 1790-1860; in particular how the experience of industrial capitalism aided the formation of a coherent organized ...
Examina el marco general del origen, la composición, el desarrollo, las condiciones de trabajo y existencia de algunos tipos de trabajadores: mineros, textiles, arrieros, ferrocarrileros y artesanos urbanos, así como su acción política ...