edited by David M Katzman and William M Tuttle
University of Illinois Press, 1982
Paper: 978-0-252-00906-8 | Cloth: 978-0-252-00884-9
Library of Congress Classification E168.P7 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.9110922

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period.
 

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