Product Description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources―eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen―to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization...read more

Product Description: In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants laboured in New York's Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that were among the worst examples of the Progressive Era. This book explores how sweatshops came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.