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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Susan Porter Benson
The luxurious appearance and
handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked
a three-way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control
of the selling floor. Counter…
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With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world…
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Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars.
Ellen Snyder-Grenier
A history of Brooklyn, its monuments, and its residents, this work highlights the people, events, and places that have made Brooklyn Brooklyn. It is illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and…
Michael H. Frisch,Daniel J. Walkowitz
Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research…