Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.
- ISBN10 0252008804
- ISBN13 9780252008801
- Publish Date 1 April 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English