| Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 Contributor(s): Bodnar, John (Author), Simon, Roger (Author), Weber, Michael P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252010639 ISBN-13: 9780252010637 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 974 |
| LCCN: 81003382 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9.16" (1.06 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities. |