The changing landscape of labor: American workers and by Michael Jacobson-Hardy

By Michael Jacobson-Hardy

Documenting the altering global of guide hard work in overdue twentieth-century New England, a photographic journey depicts the paintings environments of a number of industries whereas the accompanying essays contemplate the problems confronted through daily workers. UP.

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Bluestone and Harrison, Deindustrialization, 95. 32. Warner and Fleisch, Measurements 175, 192. S. Bureau of Census Twentieth Census of the United States: 1980, 1, pt. 23, secs. 2, 7. 33. Bluestone and Harrison, Deindustrialization, 95. Page 17 Objectivities and Subjectivities: The Ambiguities of Documentary Photography Robert E. Weir The contemplation of things as they are Without substitution or imposture Without error or confusion Is in itself a nobler thing Than a whole harvest of invention.

S. Bureau of Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Occupations, 4:691, 692, 693. See also Parker, Lowell, 160. 24. Cumbler, Working-Class Community, 89, 90, 13943. 25. S. Bureau of Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population, 3:27. 26. Ibid. 27. See Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry (New York: Basic Books 1982), 2548; Larry Sawers and William Tabb, Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984) for a discussion of the process of deindustrialization in New England.

28. Bluestone and Harrison, Deindustrialization, 124, 18283, Appendix A-5. 29. Ronald Helberg's father's comment to his adult son after the bakery factory Ronald worked in closed in the early 1970s. Overheard by author. For national figures on public service employment see Stanley Lebergott, Manpower in Economic Growth: The American Record since 1800 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), 514, 517. 30. John T. : Rutgers University Press, 1989), 14547, 16775; Hartford, Working, chap. 8. 31. Bluestone and Harrison, Deindustrialization, 95.

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