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Author Shackel, Paul A.

Title Archaeology of American labor and working-class life / Paul A. Shackel.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series American experience in archaeological perspective
American experience in archaeological perspective.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-131) and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Industrial archaeology -- United States.
Industrial archaeology.
United States.
Historic sites -- United States.
Historic sites.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Material culture -- United States -- History.
Material culture.
History.
Labor -- United States -- History.
Labor.
Working class -- United States -- History.
Working class.
Labor movement -- United States -- History.
Labor movement.
United States -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
United States -- History, Local.
Local history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Other Form: Print version: Shackel, Paul A. Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009 9780813038025
ISBN 9780813040295 (electronic book)
0813040299 (electronic book)
0813038022
9780813038025
0813034108
9780813034102
9780813038025