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.
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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.
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Add this copy of Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in to cart. $3.75, good condition, Sold by Murray's Book Exchange rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Monroe, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by University of Illinois Press.
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VG+ Wrappers. Cream colored rear cover, cream colored photographic spine and front cover are all clean and bright. Book has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and a nearly unnoticable rub in a couple isolated places around the outside edges. Binding is straight and tight. Previous owner has underlined some passages on 10 of the book's 286 pages, all of which are in the Introduction-pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. Illustrated with charts and a section of photographs in the rear of the book.
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1982, University of Chicago
Hardcover
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First Edition
Publisher:
University of Chicago
Published:
1982
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14641913562
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8vo, pp. 286. Appendices, notes, index. Illustrated with photographs and charts. Red paper over boards. Cover very slightly scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a nice copy.
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8vo, pp. 286. Notes, Appendices, index. Illustrated with photographs. Paper over boards. Edges very slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and somewhat soiled dj.
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Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.
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Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes History Of The Americas: Good or better Trade Paperback, Minor fading to cover, fold on the top back cover, Spotting to edge of pages, Prompt Shipping with Tracking.
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