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With a terrific title, Robert F. Zeidel's book expertly tells of winners and losers, those who profited handsomely from imported labor and the workers who were denigrated when they sought to improve the conditions of their employment. The story is familiar but effective in relating how the industrialization of the United States between the Civil War and World War I was fueled in good part by the labor of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and Asia. They formed a working class, but “the era's power and influence” were in the hands of the leaders of big business, who would not readily share or relinquish it (p. 1). Rather than acknowledge that workers had certain rights, management denigrated employees and dismissed the idea as radical and foreign. Cheap labor was attractive, and to speak for and protect industrial capitalism, America's business leaders constructed an elaborate ideological structure. Students of labor...
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