Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960

by Roger Simon, John Bodnar, Michael P Weber, et al.

Book Overview

Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252010639
• ISBN13: 9780252010637
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"