{"product_id":"farm-and-factory-workers-in-the-midwest-1880-1990-midwestern-history-and-culture-0253328837","title":"Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880-1990 (Midwestern History and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253328837\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nelson, Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nelson . . . [is] one of the country's leading labor scholars. . . . [His] work provides an invaluable . . . guide to understanding a critical region . . . .\" -Ohio History\". . . I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book.\" -Minnesota History\". . . a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century.\" -American Political Science Review\". . . a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the Midwest in the period between 1880 and 1990.\" -Labor History\". . . Nelson's work is most impressive in both its scope and depth. . . . a long-overdue study of the Midwest as a region distinct and important in the history of American labor.\" -Northwest Ohio Quarterly\". . . a richly textured and much needed regional overview.\" -Journal of the West\". . . a well written synthesis useful for classroom assignment in regional and social history. It is also a good starting point for a discussion of the future of the midwestern economy.\" -Wisconsin Magazine of History\" . . . a work of superior scholarship [that] makes an original and important contribution to the field.\" -Nancy Gabin\"A useful source for the demographic and economic dynamics of the Midwest and a good starting point for entering the voluminous secondary literature on the nation's heartland.\" -The Journal of American History\". . . it provides an insightful, wide-ranging look at work and workers in the Midwest. It will certainly be a basic resource on regional history for years to come, as well as a book that adds to our broader understanding of the nation's labor and economic history.\" -Indiana Magazine of History\"Solidly researched and eloquently written, Nelson's work will long occupy well-deserved status as a redefinition of traditional midwestern history.\" -Illinois Historical Journal\"The great strength of Nelson's book lies in its up-to-date synthesis of various social history literatures . . . the study forms an exemplary American labor history.\" -Michigan Historical Review\"The writing is a model of clarity and economy; the examples are well chosen and the sources are complete. Nelson has presented a blueprint for a new way to think about and present labor history.\" -Agricultural History\"Farm and Factory deserves to take a place among the most respected books consulted by students of midwestern history\" -The Annals of IowaDaniel Nelson illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51702790029600,"sku":"NEW0253328837","price":37.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61bmokihogL.jpg?v=1779388544","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/farm-and-factory-workers-in-the-midwest-1880-1990-midwestern-history-and-culture-0253328837","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}