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Author Shackel, Paul A.

Title Archaeology of American labor and working-class life / Paul A. Shackel
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations
Series American experience in archaeological perspective
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-131) and index
Notes English
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Subject Industrial archaeology -- United States
Historic sites -- United States.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States
Material culture -- United States -- History
Labor -- United States -- History
Working class -- United States -- History
Labor movement -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historic sites
Industrial archaeology
Labor
Labor movement
Material culture
Working class
SUBJECT United States -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139797
United States -- History, Local. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140336
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009019218
ISBN 9780813040295
0813040299
0813038022
9780813038025