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Description The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the “roaring twenties” looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to police violence and repression.
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Irving Bernstein (1916–2001) was a distinguished labor historian and teacher. He earned a PhD at Harvard University where he studied with Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. He taught from 1948 to 1986 at UCLA, doing research at the Institute of Industrial Relations and teaching in the Department of Political Science.

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ISBN: 9781608460632

Publication date: July 1, 2010

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