Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life.
Title:
Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life.
Author:
Shackel, Paul A.
ISBN:
9780813040295
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (160 pages)
Series:
American Experience in Archaeological Perspective
Contents:
Cvr -- Table of Contents v -- List of Figures vii -- Foreward ix -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgments xvii -- Introduction 1 -- 1 World Systems and the Development of Industrial Capitalism 14 -- 2 Surveillance Technologies and Building the Industrial Environment 27 -- 3 Workers' Housing in the Late Nineteenth Century 40 -- 4 Power, Resistance, and Alternatives 53 -- 5 Directions for a Labor Archaeology 66 -- 6 Memory, Ruins, and Commemoration 78 -- Conclusion 91 -- References Cited 105 -- Index 133.
Abstract:
What happens, though, when we take a closer look at the archaeological record? That is the focus of Paul Shackel's new book, which examines labor and working-class life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial America.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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