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

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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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.

  • Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Oscar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association, 1985.</DIV> 1985

ISBN: 9780252010637

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 454g

312 pages