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ilt, the mid-nineteenth-century steamboat entrepreneur who is said to have been America's first multimillionaire, began with a hundred dollars lent by his mother (Lens 47). From his time to that of Eastern Airlines' Frank Lorenzo, those on the other side of the negotiating table or picket line from labor have often been "self-made," of modest origins.

Likewise, the American working population, a heterogenous mix of immigrants and the children of immigrants, lacked the type of extended-family and village solidarity that frequently characterized European work

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