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Chicago Italians at Work

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Product Code: 9781531640187
ISBN13: 9781531640187
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Chicago Italians at Work

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$29.32
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For more than a century, Italian immigrants and their descendants contributed their labor and talent to building the city. Chicago Italians at Work focuses on a period from 1890 to 1970 when industry was king in this midwestern metropolis. Generations of Italians found work in companies such as U.S. Steel, Western Electric, Pullman, Crane, McCormick/Harvester, Hart Schaffner and Marx, and other large industrial corporations. Other Italians were self-employed as barbers, shoe workers, tailors, musicians, construction workers, and more. In many of these trades, Italians were predominant. A complex network of family enterprises also operated in the Chicago Italian community. Small shopkeepers generated work in food services and retail employment; some of these ma-and-pa operations grew into large, prosperous enterprises that survive today. Finally, Italians helped develop trade unions, which created long-term economic gains for all ethnic groups in Chicago. This book chronicles the labor and contributions of an urban ethnic community through historic photographs and text.


Author: Peter N. Pero
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Publication Date: Jan 21, 2009
Number of Pages: 130 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1531640184
ISBN-13: 9781531640187
 

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