The Lean Years

A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

by Irving Bernstein Introduction by Frances Fox Piven

July 1, 2010

ISBN: 9781608460632

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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.

Author Bios

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

Reviews

"A lively, knowledgeable book about the state of labor in the years prior to the New Deal. The author has accomplished an expert blend of illustrative detail and meaningful summary reliable in scholarship and shorn of pedantry and pretense." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "A skillful blending of economic activity, legislative inactivity, biographical sketches, and the increasing demoralization of the worker and labor organization." --The Journal of Economic History "An unusually perceptive dissection."

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