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Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City
by Hareven, Tamara K. and Randolph Langenbach
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394499417
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499413
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xiii, 395 (2) pp, acknowledgments, Part I. The Setting; Part II. First Generation; Part III. The Corporation; Part IV. The World at Work; Part V. Families; Part VI. Strike and Shutdown; Part VII. Child of the Shutown; Part VIII. Eulogy; glossary, photograph credits with b&w illustrations and a tipped-in review on front pastedown. First Edition, 1978. "This book focuses on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, once the largest textile factory in the world, and moves through layer after layer of mill life, from the elegant world of Boston-based executives to the cramped quarters of the families of bosses and workers; shared experiences and ethnic rivalries, of company loyalty and bitter strikes in industrializing America." from the jacket flap. Price Clipped. Inked name on ffep. Minor wear to top and bottom edge dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no other underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004207
- Title
- Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City
- Author
- Hareven, Tamara K. and Randolph Langenbach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394499417
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499413
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- SOCIOLOGY FACTORY CITIES UNITED STATES SOCIAL HISTORY AMOSKEAG MANUFACTURING COMPANY MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Bookseller catalogs
- SOCIOLOGY;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- FFEP
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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