Family Ties and Class Conflict: The Politics of Immigrant Communities in the Great Lakes Region, 1890-1920

Abstract

This paper challenges the traditional view that families react to, rather than influence, political organization. I compare the role of the family in class conflict in six industrial immigrant communities in the Great Lakes region of the United States at the turn of the century. Some of these communities were settled primarily by families, others by single male workers. I find that families play an important role in creating stable working-class cultural organizations. Further, family bonds and family imagery provide a mechanism for political recruitment into both right-wing and left-wing movements.

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