Description:"Nelson... [is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... [His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." --Ohio History..". I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." --Minnesota History..". a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." --American Political Science Review..". a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the Midwest in the period between 1880 and 1990." --Labor History..". Nelson's work is most impressive in both its scope and depth.... a long-overdue study of the Midwest as a region distinct and important in the history of American labor." --Northwest Ohio Quarterly..". a richly textured and much needed regional overview." --Journal of the West..". a well written synthesis useful for classroom assignment in regional and social history. It is also a good starting point for a discussion of the future of the midwestern economy." --Wisconsin Magazine of History..". a work of superior scholarship [that] makes an original and important contribution to the field." --Nancy Gabin..".A useful source for the demographic and economic dynamics of the Midwest and a good starting point for entering the voluminous secondary literature on the nation's heartland." --The Journal of American History..". it provides an insightful, wide-ranging look at work and workers in the Midwest. It will certainly be a basic resource on regional history for years to come, as well as a book that adds to our broader understanding of the nation's labor and economic history." --Indiana Magazine of History"Solidly researched and eloquently written, Nelson's work will long occupy well-deserved status as a redefinition of traditional midwestern history." --Illinois Historical Journal"The great strength of Nelson's book lies in its up-to-date synthesis of various social history literatures... the study forms an exemplary American labor history." --Michigan Historical Review"The writing is a model of clarity and economy; the examples are well chosen and the sources are complete. Nelson has presented a blueprint for a new way to think about and present labor history." --Agricultural History"Farm and Factory deserves to take a place among the most respected books consulted by students of midwestern history" --The Annals of IowaDaniel Nelson illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990. To get started finding Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990
Description: "Nelson... [is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... [His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." --Ohio History..". I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." --Minnesota History..". a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." --American Political Science Review..". a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the Midwest in the period between 1880 and 1990." --Labor History..". Nelson's work is most impressive in both its scope and depth.... a long-overdue study of the Midwest as a region distinct and important in the history of American labor." --Northwest Ohio Quarterly..". a richly textured and much needed regional overview." --Journal of the West..". a well written synthesis useful for classroom assignment in regional and social history. It is also a good starting point for a discussion of the future of the midwestern economy." --Wisconsin Magazine of History..". a work of superior scholarship [that] makes an original and important contribution to the field." --Nancy Gabin..".A useful source for the demographic and economic dynamics of the Midwest and a good starting point for entering the voluminous secondary literature on the nation's heartland." --The Journal of American History..". it provides an insightful, wide-ranging look at work and workers in the Midwest. It will certainly be a basic resource on regional history for years to come, as well as a book that adds to our broader understanding of the nation's labor and economic history." --Indiana Magazine of History"Solidly researched and eloquently written, Nelson's work will long occupy well-deserved status as a redefinition of traditional midwestern history." --Illinois Historical Journal"The great strength of Nelson's book lies in its up-to-date synthesis of various social history literatures... the study forms an exemplary American labor history." --Michigan Historical Review"The writing is a model of clarity and economy; the examples are well chosen and the sources are complete. Nelson has presented a blueprint for a new way to think about and present labor history." --Agricultural History"Farm and Factory deserves to take a place among the most respected books consulted by students of midwestern history" --The Annals of IowaDaniel Nelson illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990. To get started finding Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.