Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900

The Working Class in American History

by Richard Oestreicher

How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.

Genres: Labor, History

296 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1989

Reviews

[Mark Bowles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Richard J. Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation; Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 (1986)
1. There was a working class sub-culture of opposition
2. Strikes and marches indicated its existence
3. Its roots lay in W.C. experiences that gave them solidarity to overcome fragmentation