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The work ethic in industrial America, 1850-1920
Rodgers, Daniel T.
Year: 1979, c1978.
Publisher:  University of Chicago Press. 
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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Work Ideals and the Industrial Revolution
2. Hireling Laborers
3. "Mechanicalized" Men
4. Play, Repose, and Plenty
5. Splinterings: Fables for Boys
6. Sons of Toil: Industrial Workers and Their Labor
7. Idle Womanhood: Feminist Versions of the Work Ethic
8. The Political Uses of Work Rhetoric
Epilogue: Charles W. Eliot and the Quest for Joyful Labor
Notes
Index
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Title: The work ethic in industrial America, 1850-1920 : Daniel T. Rodgers.
Author: Rodgers, Daniel T
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008
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Source Version: The work ethic in industrial America, 1850-1920 : Daniel T. Rodgers. 
Rodgers, Daniel T
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, c1978.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00605
Subject Headings: • Middle class -- United States -- History
• Working class -- United States -- History
• Work
Notes: • Includes index.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required
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