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<p>"Nelson... [is] one of the country’s leading labor scholars.... [His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." —Ohio History</p> <p>"... I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." —Minnesota History</p> <p>"... a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." —American Political Science Review</p> <p>"... a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the Midwest in the period between 1880 and 1990." —Labor History</p> <p>"... Nelson’s work is most impressive in both its scope and depth.... a long-overdue study of the Midwest as a region distinct and important in the history of American labor." —Northwest Ohio Quarterly</p> <p>"... a richly textured and much needed regional overview." —Journal of the West</p> <p>"... a well written synthesis useful for classroom assignment in regional and social history. It is also a good starting point for a discussion of the future of the midwestern economy." —Wisconsin Magazine of History</p> <p>"... a work
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- Author
- Nelson, Daniel, 1941-
- Publisher
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780253328830
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, Management, History
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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