Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)
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Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from handcraft to mass production.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252013336
ISBN13:9780252013331
Release Date:June 1987
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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