essay
Working for some rich people: an oral history of Highwood, Illinois
melting pot and beyond : Italian Americans in the year 2000 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1987 • Pages: 259-272
By: Bernardi, Adria.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, based on interviews with about forty members of the Highwood community, presents a portrait of the Italian American immigrants of that town in the 1920s and 1930s. Selections from these interviews deal primarily with the type of work that the Highwood Italian immigrants did for the 'rich people' of that community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domestic service
- Labor supply and employment
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1920-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Highwood, Ill., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Adria Bernardi
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans