"Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and...

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1. Verfasser:	Mulrooney, Margaret M. 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newark University of Delaware Press [2023]
Ausgabe:	20th anniversary edition
Schriftenreihe:	Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Schlagworte:	Irish Americans / Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) / Ethnic identity Irish Americans / Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) / History / 19th century Working class / Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) / History / 19th century Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) / History / 19th century E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company Irish Americans Irish Americans / Ethnic identity Working class United States / Brandywine Creek Valley 1800-1899 History
Zusammenfassung:	"Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer"--
Beschreibung:	Originally published: University of New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 2002
Beschreibung:	xix, 267 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9781644532812 1644532816 9781644532805 1644532808