Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City

Bernhardt, Debra E., and Rachel Bernstein

ISBN 10: 0814798667 ISBN 13: 9780814798669

Published by New York University Press, New York, 2000

Language: English

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Black cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Pictorial dust jacket shows the least bit of surface rubbing, essentially as issued, now in mylar. xiv,224 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. 1st ptg., complete number line. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 044327

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Title: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A ...

Publisher: New York University Press, New York

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/labor/index.html
This pictorial history brings to life the breathtaking and often heartbreaking stories of the workers who, with cement and steel, needle and thread, blood, sweat and dreams, built New York City in the twentieth century.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives tells the stories of the men and women who built the city--of towering structures and the beam walkers who assembled them; of immigrant youths in factories and women...

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