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Lean Years : A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 by Irving Bernstein (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHaymarket Books

ISBN-101608460630

ISBN-139781608460632

eBay Product ID (ePID)78885277

Product Key Features

Book TitleLean Years : a History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economic Conditions

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorIrving Bernstein

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"A lively, knowledgeable book about the state of labor in the years prior to the New Deal. The author has accomplished an expert blend of illustrative detail and meaningful summary reliable in scholarship and shorn of pedantry and pretense." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "A skillful blending of economic activity, legislative inactivity, biographical sketches, and the increasing demoralization of the worker and labor organization." --The Journal of Economic History "An unusually perceptive dissection."

Dewey Decimal331.0973

SynopsisA fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression., "Pre-eminent among historians of labor history." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the "roaring twenties" looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to police violence and repression. Here, Irving Bernstein recaptures the social history of the decade leading up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration, uncovers its widespread inequality, and sheds light on the long-forgotten struggles that form the prelude to the great labor victories of the 1930s. "In other words, viewed from afar, most of the people who were suffering the hardships of the Depression were depressed and even ashamed, ready to blame themselves for their plight. But the train of developments that connects changes in social conditions to a changed consciousness is not simple. People, including ordinary people, harbor somewhere in their memories the building blocks of different and contradictory interpretations of what it is that is happening to them, of who should be blamed, and what can be done about it. Even the hangdog and ashamed unemployed worker who swings his lunch box and strides down the street so the neighbors will think he is going to a job can also have other ideas that only have to be evoked, and when they are make it possible for him on another day to rally with others and rise up in anger at his condition. --From the new introduction by Frances Fox Piven

LC Classification NumberHD8072