Download or read book Solidarity and Fragmentation written by Richard Jules Oestreicher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.