Lives of Their Own
Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
Roger Simon author John Bodnar author Michael P Weber author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:1st Jul '83
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Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.
Winner of the Oscar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association, 1985.
ISBN: 9780252010637
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
Weight: 454g
312 pages