Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City
Description
Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/labor/index.html This pictorial history brings to life the breathtaking and often heartbreaking stories of the workers who, with cement and steel, needle and thread, blood, sweat and dreams, built New York City in the twentieth century. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives tells the stories of the men and women who built the city--of towering structures and the beam walkers who assembled them; of immigrant youths in factories and women in sweatshops; of longshoremen and typewriter girls; of dock workers and captains of industry. It provides a g...
ISBN(s)
0814798667, 9780814798669
