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Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913 - Tapa dura

Shergold, Peter R.

 
9780822938026: Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913
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ISBN 10: 0822938022 ISBN 13: 9780822938026
Editorial: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982

Sinopsis

This book challenges the commonly held theory that American workers had a far superior standard of living than their European counterparts in the early twentieth century. Peter R. Shergold bases his study on the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Birmingham, England, and compares statistical data on wage rates, labor hours, family income, retail prices, diet and budgets. He also presents information from medical investigators, travelers, charity workers, business organizations, diaries, speeches and a wide variety of other sources to breathe human life into his statistical data. Shergold reveals that skilled Americans did earn higher wages than the British, yet unskilled workers did not, while Americans worked longer hours, with a greater chance of injury, and had fewer social services.

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Peter R. Shergold is Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Australia, and former Senior Lecturer in economic history at the University of New South Wales.

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Editorial
University of Pittsburgh Press
Año de publicación
1982
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822938022
ISBN 13 
9780822938026
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
328
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