Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.
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Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.
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Good. Highlighting/underlining. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 (Working Class in American History) by John Bodnar (Author), Roger Simon (Author), Michael P Weber (Author)..... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Working Class in American History. Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 (Working Class in American History) by John Bodnar (Author), Roger Simon (Author), Michael P Weber (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-EX-LIBRARY BOOK-HAS NOTES IN PENCIL ON COVER PAGE...1983 COPYRIGHT University of Illinois Press BOOK SIZE 6 X 8 7/8 Language : English Paperback : 286 pages-Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.
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8vo, pp. 286. Appendices, notes, index. Illustrated with photographs and charts. Red paper over boards. Cover very slightly scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a nice copy.
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8vo, pp. 286. Notes, Appendices, index. Illustrated with photographs. Paper over boards. Edges very slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and somewhat soiled dj.
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VG+ Wrappers. Cream colored rear cover, cream colored photographic spine and front cover are all clean and bright. Book has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and a nearly unnoticable rub in a couple isolated places around the outside edges. Binding is straight and tight. Previous owner has underlined some passages on 10 of the book's 286 pages, all of which are in the Introduction-pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. Illustrated with charts and a section of photographs in the rear of the book.
