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A Broad and Ennobling Spirit: Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898 Ronald Mendel
A Broad and Ennobling Spirit: Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898
Ronald Mendel
Garment workers, caught in the snare of a sweating system of labor in which wages and work loads were inversely related, organized unions to mount strikes during the busy season in the hope of securing higher wages, only to see them whither in the midst of slack periods.
264 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780313321344 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 242 × 24 mm · 526 g |
| Language | English |