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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920

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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 - Rosenzweig, Roy
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In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates ...

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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 1985, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521313971

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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 1983, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521239165

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