Main entry:

Rosenzweig, Roy.

Title & Author:

Eight hours for what we will : workers and leisure in an industrial city, 1870-1920 / Roy Rosenzweig.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Description:

xi, 304 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Context. Workers in an industrial city, 1870-1920 -- Part II. Culture: the working-class world of the late nineteenth century. The rise of the saloon ; Immigrant workers and the Fourth of July -- Part III. Conflict: struggles over working-class leisure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The struggle over the saloon, 1870-1910 ; The struggle over recreational space : the development of parks and playgrounds ; The struggle over the Fourth : the safe and sane July Fourth movement and the immigrant working class -- Part IV. Culture, conflict, and change: the working-class world of the early twentieth century. The commercialization of leisure : the rise of a leisure market and the persistence of the saloon ; From rum shop to Rialto : workers and movies -- Conclusion.

Summary:

In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the neighbourhood park, the fraternal lodge hall, the amusement park, and the nickelodeon had a good deal of bearing on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the voting booths of America's industrial communities.

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ISBN:

0521239168
9780521239165
9780521313971 (pbk.)
052131397X (pbk.)

Subject:

Working class Recreation Massachusetts Worcester.
Working class Massachusetts Worcester History 19th century.
Working class Massachusetts Worcester History 20th century.
Travailleurs Loisirs Massachusetts Worcester Histoire.
Travailleurs Loisirs Massachusetts Worcester.
Travailleurs Massachusetts Worcester Histoire 19e siècle.
Travailleurs Massachusetts Worcester Histoire 20e siècle.
Social conditions
Working class.
Working class Recreation.
Arbeiter
Freizeit
Freizeitgestaltung
Industriearbeit
Play Massachusetts Worcester.
Working class Massachusetts Worcester.
Worcester (Mass.) Social conditions.
Worcester (Mass.) Conditions sociales.
Massachusetts Worcester.
USA
Massachusetts Worcester Working classes Leisure activities, 1870-1920

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26045
Call No.: PO10951; ID:88-B12131
Status: Available