Working Lives C. 1900

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Working Lives C. 1900 is written by Erik Olssen and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1877578517 (ISBN 10) and 9781877578519 (ISBN 13).

For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride. Together with the so-called unskilled, who built the infrastructure for the new society, these workers laid the cultural and social foundations of a new and fairer society. This book uses photographs to show two processes fundamental to creating a new society: the transformation of swamp into farmland then cityscape, and the transplantation of the knowledge and skill acquired in the Old World that were essential to building a new world.