German workers in industrial Chicago, 1850-1910 : a comparative perspective

German workers in industrial Chicago, 1850-1910 : a comparative perspective /

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Main Authors: Keil, Hartmut, 1942- (Author, Editor), Jentz, John B., 1944- (Author, Editor), Faires, Nora Helen (Author), Oestreicher, Richard Jules, 1947- (Author), Suhrbur, Thomas J., 1946- (Author), Barrett, James R., 1950- (Author), Harzig, Christiane (Author), Schneider, Dorothee, 1952- (Author), Levine, Bruce C., 1949- (Author), Schneirov, Richard (Author), Heiss, Christine (Author), Buhle, Paul, 1944- (Author), Ensslen, Klaus (Author), Ickstadt, Heinz (Author)
Corporate Author: Chicago Project (Universität München)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1983.
Subjects:
1800-1999
German Americans > Employment > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Working class > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Working class > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
German Americans > Employment > History.
Américains d'origine allemande > Travail > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire.
Travailleurs > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire.
Américains d'origine allemande > Travail > Histoire.
Emigration and immigration.
German Americans > Employment.
Working class.
Deutsche
Duitsers.
Arbeiders.
German Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Employment > 19th century.
German Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sozialgeschichte 1850-1910.
Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
Chicago (Ill.) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago, Ill.
Deutsche.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz
  • German immigrant workers and their place in American urban society. Chicago's German working class in 1900 / Hartmut Keil
  • Occupational patterns of German-Americans in nineteenth-century cities / Nora Faires
  • Industrialization, class, and competing cultural systems: Detroit workers, 1875-1900 / Richard Oestreicher-- Industrialization and transformation of work. Skilled workers and industrialization: Chicago's German cabinetmakers and machinists, 1880-1900 / John B. Jentz
  • Ethnicity in the formation of the Chicago carpenters union: 1855-1890 / Thomas J. Suhrbur
  • Immigrant workers in early mass production industry: work rationalization and job control conflicts in Chicago's packinghouses, 1900-1904 / James R. Barrett
  • Neighborhood and everyday life. Chicago's German north side, 1800-1900: the structure of the Gilded Age ethnic neighborhood / Christiane Harzig
  • "For whom are all the good things in life?" German-American housewives discuss their budgets / Dorothee Schneider
  • Politics and culture. Free soil, free labor, and Freimanner: German Chicago in the Civil War era / Bruce Carlan Levine
  • Class conflict, municipal politics, and governmental reform in Gilded Age Chicago, 1871-1875 / Richard Schneirov
  • German radicals in industrial America: the lehr-und wehr-verein in Gilded Age Chicago / Christine Heiss
  • German socialists and the roots of American working-class radicalism / Paul Buhle
  • German working-class culture in Chicago: continuity and change in the decade from 1900 to 1910 / Klaus Ensslen and Heinz Ickstadt.

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