Lives of Their Own Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 |
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| Author:
| Bodnar, John
Simon, Roger
Weber, Michael P. |
| Series title: | Working Class in American History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-01063-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1983 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......