Martin Blatt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. He is the author of Free Love anAnarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood and the co-editor of The Meaning of Slavery in the North. Currently he is the Chief of Cultural Resources/Historian at Boston National Historical Park. MarthaNorkunas received her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. Her book, The Politics of Public Memory, received the 1994 Historic Preservation Book Award. She served as Cultural Affairs Director for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission from 1989-1994. Currently she is Oral and Public Historian at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
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RECREATION AND CULTURESERIES EDITOR'S PREFACEIndroductionMar tin Blatt and Martha NorkunasWOMEN'S WORKSuccess and the Travelers Insurance Woman
1920-1950
Tracey M. WilsonBehind the Scenes in the Big Store: Reassessing Women's Employment in American Department Stores
1870-1920
Sarah S. MalinoThe World Our Mothers Made: Southern Italian and Eastern European Immigrants in Industrial Connecticut
1890-1940
Laura AnkerWORKER'S CULTURESport
Domestic Strength
and National Security
Monys Hagen Social Lodges and Fraternal Associations and the Maintenance of Urban Community
Milton CantorEducation and the Nineteenth-Century Working Class
Milton CantorWORKER'S ORGANIZATIONForeign Pioneers: Immigrants and the Mechanized Factory System in Antebellum New England
David A. Zonderman A Larger Battle: Lawrence and the 1912 New England Mill Strikes
Dexter ArnoldImmigrant Workers and Labor Organization
1912-1926: Lawrence
Massachusetts and Passaic
New Jersey
David J. GoldbergWe Exploit Tools
Not Men: The Speed-Up and Militance at General Motors
1930-1941
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