TITLE

LABOR, GENDER, AND GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN A WESTERN CITY

AUTHOR(S)
Worrall, Janet E.
PUB. DATE
December 2001
SOURCE
Western Historical Quarterly;Winter2001, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p437
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses the labor, gender and generational changes of Italian immigrants in Denver, Colorado from 1800s through 1900s. Factors that contributed to Denver's attractiveness to immigrants; Festivities held by migrant Italians; Occupations of Italian women.
ACCESSION #
5931422

Tags: IMMIGRANTS;  ITALIANS;  EMIGRATION & immigration

 

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