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Jack Larkin

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Description for Where We Worked Hardback. A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 226 x 30. Weight in Grams: 94.
A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.

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Format

Hardback

Publication date

2010

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield United States

Number of pages

384

Condition

New

Number of Pages

384

Place of Publication

Guilford, United States

ISBN

9781599219608

SKU

V9781599219608

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About Jack Larkin

Jack Larkin is the former museum scholar and chief historian at Old Sturbridge Village inSturbridge, Massachussetts, affiliate professor of history at Clark University, and a frequent consultant and lecturer for museums and historical organizations. A Chicago native and graduate of Harvard College and Brandeis University, Larkin is author of Where We Worked, published with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ... Read more

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“…a rich collection of photographs, drawings, lithographs, newspaper cartoons, and advertisements, mostly from the Library of Congress, but also from labor unions, public libraries, and a few from (the author's) own family album, to create a picture of the hardest-working people in the history of the world…This lively and down-to-earth book journeys from the dawn of the nineteenth century through ... Read morethe 1930s. It will especially appeal to the young adult reader who has never seen a dial telephone, much less a telegraph, textile mill, or blacksmith shop. It's fascinating reading.” - Jack Shakely, ForeWord Reviews "In this masterpiece of visual and textual history, Jack Larkin records the nittty-gritty of hard labor from the 1830s to the 1930s. Ingeniously combining words and pictures, he spreads before us the world ordinary people lived in most of the time–the world of work." - Richard L. Bushman, Professor of History, Columbia University (previous winner of the Bancroft Prize for American History.) "'Where We Worked is a superb tribute to the working people whose sweat and labor, intelligence and determination, faith and patriotism built American wealth and power during the great age of industrial revolution from the 1830s to the eve of the Second World War. In words and images informed by a keen grasp of social history “from the bottom up,” Jack Larkin evokes the lost worlds of ordinary people – men and women, native and immigrant, black and white – in fields, forests, and factories, shops and stores, on steamboats, fishing vessels, and railroads and pays these unacknowledged heroes of everyday life the just dues so often denied by their bosses and by later celebrants of American capitalism. In our electronic age, when technology is “virtual,” machines operate through invisible circuits, and the actual labor of extracting raw materials and assembling them into commodities is outsourced beyond our shores, it is instructive to review Larkin’s compelling pages and be reminded that the goods and services that make our lives easier are always the product of industrious, often ill-paid people investing hands, hearts, and minds in the work. – Robert A. Gross, James L. And Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History, University of Connecticut "Every library needs this book, which would also make a fine gift! It is our story—ordinary Americans transforming our country into the envy of the world. All readers will marvel at how hard our forebears worked and will gain a deeper understanding of the nation we have inherited. Highly recommended. - Library Journal "...certainly a book that opens eyes." - Bookideas.com Show Less

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