Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century

by Walter Licht

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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352 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1983

About the author

A specialist in labor history, economic history, and the history of American capitalism, Walter Licht is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.