Inventing Irish America

Inventing Irish America
Author: Timothy J. Meagher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

An analysis of the Irish community of city of Worcester, Massachusetts around the turn of the 20th century. The author reveals how an ethnic group can endure and yet change when its first American-born generation takes control of its destiny.

Old Worcester

Old Worcester
Author: Bill Gwilliam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1993-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780951352588

Eight Hours for What We Will

Eight Hours for What We Will
Author: Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521313971

Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.