The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
- ISBN-10
- 0395136571
- ISBN-13
- 9780395136577
- Category
- History / United States / 20th Century
- Pages
- 577
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1960
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Author
- Irving Bernstein
Description
"This is the story of American labor between 1920 and 1933 -- its period of greatest crisis."--Page 4 of cover.
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