The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Argersinger, Jo Ann

 
9781319048853: The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1319048854 ISBN 13: 9781319048853
Verlag: BEDFORD BOOKS, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Explore the important political and economic roles held by these factory girls, during the Triangle Fire of 1911 as Triangle Fire presents sources that help you think critically about the demands industrialization placed upon urban working women, their fight to unionize, and the fires significance in the greater scope of labor reform.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jo Ann E. Argersinger (PhD, George Washington University) is a professor of history at Southern Illinois University, where she teaches courses on World War II, the Cold War, and labor in the United States, including a history of women and work. She is the author of Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry (1999) and Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988). She is the coauthor of Twentieth-Century America: A Social and Political History (2005) and of The American Journey (Sixth Edition, 2010). She is currently writing a book on public housing and transnational perspectives, and her article entitled Contested Visions of American Democracy: Citizenship, Public Housing, and the International Arena is forthcoming in the Journal of Urban History. She will appear in a PBS documentary on the Triangle Fire, scheduled to air in March 2011, marking the hundredth anniversary of the fire.

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Verlag
BEDFORD BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1319048854
ISBN 13 
9781319048853
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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