The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 19 The City and Its Workers 1870–1900 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson
The Rise of the City The Urban Explosion, a Global Migration Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction The Social Geography of the City
At Work in Industrial America America’s Diverse Workers The Family Economy: Women and Children Managers and White Collars “Typewriters” and Salesclerks
Workers Organize The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism
At Home and at Play Domesticity and “Domestics” Mill Towns and Company Towns Cheap Amusements
City Growth and City Government Building Cities of Stone and Steel City Government and the “Bosses” White City or City of Sin?
Chapter 19 The City and Its Workers: 1870–1900 Map 19.1 Economic Regions of the World, 1890s (p. 668) Map 19.2 The Impact of Immigration, to 1910 (p. 669) Map 19.3 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (p. 684) Figure 19.1 European Immigration, 1870–1910 (p. 671) Figure 19.2 Women and Work, 1870 –1890 (p. 680) Global Comparison: European Emigration, 1870–1890 (p. 670) The Vanderbilt Costume Ball, 1884 (p. 677) “The Chicago Riot” (p. 687) Beach Scene at Coney Island (p. 691)