Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century
By Walter Licht
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Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations.
Originally published in 1983.
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