A Social History Of The Laboring Classes

Download or read book A Social History of the Laboring Classes written by Jacqueline Jones and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social History of the Laboring Classes provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life: work. Beginning with the seventeenth century, Jacqueline Jones examines the experiences of different groups of American workers - waged and unwaged, urban and countrysidewithin a framework of the economic transformations that have occurred at regular intervals throughout American history. This concise synthesis by an award-winning historian provides an account of the social history of work for students of American history and general readers alike.