Lives of Their Own

Download or Read eBook Lives of Their Own PDF written by John E. Bodnar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.

Author	: John E. Bodnar
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages	: 316
Release	: 1983
ISBN-10	: 0252010639
ISBN-13	: 9780252010637
Rating	: 4/5 (39 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Lives of Their Own by : John E. Bodnar

Book excerpt: 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.

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