Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse289 pages hardcover Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativisma sociocultural negativity toward foreign born residentsas a reason for Americans' dislike

It describes the principal ways that contract costs are calculated and expressed by negotiators

and draw lessons from recent activist successes

said that every community needs a group of "angelic troublemakers" to make nonviolent trouble for change

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These interviews emphasize the epic civilization of the steelworkers

taking collective action

This is a book of life

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