"A Broad and Ennobling Spirit": Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898
- ISBN-10
- 0313321345
- ISBN-13
- 9780313321344
- Category
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Ronald Mendel
Description
Examines how workers from a cross section of occupations organized unions to gain protection from the vagaries of a market economy.
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