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Plain Folk : The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans - David M. Katzman

Plain Folk

The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans

By: David M. Katzman (Editor), William M. Tuttle (Editor)

Paperback | 16 March 1982

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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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@KATZMANPlain Folk@"Remarkable stories of fortitude, ambition, and resignation. Their style is vivid and concrete... The female autobiographers work longer hours, and the black female domestics longest of all." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly

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