Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900

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Julie Husband, Jim O'Loughlin

ISBN: 0-313-32302-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32302-7

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288 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 9/30/2004

List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

Description: Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before.

First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Photo Captions
Introduction: "I Felt Everything Get Bigger and Go Quicker Every Day"
The City
The Railroad
The Factory and Organized Labor Responses
Housework, Houses and Women at Home
Childhood and Family Life
Consumer Culture
Leisure and Entertainment
Education and Health Care
Religious and Civic Life
Conclusion: Not the Gilded Age
Glossary
Works Cited
About the Authors

About the Author: JULIE HUSBAND is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

JIM O'LOUGHLIN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

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