Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 by Roger Simon, John Bodnar, Michael P. Weber

Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960

The Working Class in American History

Roger Simon, John Bodnar, Michael P. Weber

312 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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