The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

By Irving Bernstein

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608460630
• ISBN13: 9781608460632
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"