GENERATION of BOOMERS
Shelton Stromquist(Author)
University of Illinois Press
Published on 1. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
353 pages
978-0-252-06344-2 (ISBN)
Description
"'Boomer' railroad men have a cherished place in the popular imagination. Although the romance of their vocations and the itinerancy of their lives have been exaggerated, the term 'Boomer' fittingly characterizes a significant portion of the generation of workers that built and operated the railroads during the expansive years of the late nineteenth century. There are numerous excellent accounts of the major railroad strikes for this period. There is also a rich literature of local studies that focus primarily on changes in working class culture and community in a variety of industrial settings. But we lack a framework for integrating the local analysis of social and cultural patterns with changes in the political economy of nineteenth-century American capitalism, and we lack an analysis of strikes that locates episodes within broader patterns of emerging class conflict. This volume is an attempt to build such a larger framework."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-06344-2 (9780252063442)
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Person
Shelton Stromquist is a professor emeritus of American, social, and labor history at the University of Iowa.