Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... workers , the trend was in the opposite direction . In 1890 the number of farmers and farm laborers ex- ceeded the number of industrial workers by more than a million ; thirty years later , workers outnumbered farm proprietors and ...
... workers , the trend was in the opposite direction . In 1890 the number of farmers and farm laborers ex- ceeded the number of industrial workers by more than a million ; thirty years later , workers outnumbered farm proprietors and ...
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... workers , especially when compared with a decline in the number of persons engaged in certain types of blue - collar and service occupations . At the turn of the century less than one - fifth of the employed population could be ...
... workers , especially when compared with a decline in the number of persons engaged in certain types of blue - collar and service occupations . At the turn of the century less than one - fifth of the employed population could be ...
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... workers were relatively more important than they had been . Members of the middle class had become , for the most part , sal- aried employees . What held such a loose collection together closely enough to justify thinking of it as a ...
... workers were relatively more important than they had been . Members of the middle class had become , for the most part , sal- aried employees . What held such a loose collection together closely enough to justify thinking of it as a ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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| Title | Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred Years |
| Author | Paul W. Glad |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2006 |
| ISBN | 0669904074, 9780669904079 |
| Length | 558 pages |
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