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Colliers Across the Sea

A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924

Colliers Across the Sea( )
Author: Laslett, John H.
Series title:The Working Class in American History Ser.
ISBN:978-0-252-06827-0
Publication Date:Feb 2000
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $55.99
Book Description:

This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century.   Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.413 cm
Book Weight:0.5 Kilograms



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