Thomas Bell (1) (1903–1961)
Autor de Out of This Furnace
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Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: From Special Collections, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Pittsburgh PA
Obras de Thomas Bell
Till I Come Back to You 2 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Belejcak, Adalbert Thomas
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1903-03-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1961-01-17
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Braddock, PA, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Ocupaciones
- Apprentice Electrician
Mechanic
Merchant Seaman
Bookstore Clerk
Author - Relaciones
- Belejcak, Michael (father)
Krachun, Mary (mother)
Bell, Marie (wife)
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 442
- Popularidad
- #55,392
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 19
I loved this book! It really gets the grittiness of the mills and the mill towns. He does not make their lives glamorous. These people are not the owners, not the Carnegies or Fricks, not the doctors or lawyers. They are the everyday people whose lives revolved around the mills and what the owners did to the workers. Knowing that so many died in the mills with their families left destitute so a few could be rich and treat the workers like dirt. It angered me. I liked these people. I know these people. They work hard but never seem to get ahead.
While this was written in 1941, it is still pertinent today. We see the same things happening as workers try to unionize. Mary's story, though the shortest, resonate the most with me. She had a hard life. I liked Dobie's reflections after they bring in the union of what an American is (circa late 1930's.) This is a book everyone should read. It is real and still has something to say 80 years later… (más)