Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940

Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government—sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community rela...