Dawning of American Labor

Dawning of American Labor

The New Republic to the Industrial Age

Greenberg, Brian

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

12/2017

232

Dura

Inglês

9781119065685

15 a 20 dias

380

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List of Figures / vii

Acknowledgments / ix

Prologue: American Exceptionalism and the Great Strike of 1877 / 1

Chapter One: Artisans in the New Republic, 1787-1825 / 11

The Artisan Workplace / 11

The Political Economy of Early America / 15

The Early Transformation of the Workplace / 26

Rural Manufactures / 28

The Economy of Seaport Cities / 38

Manual Labor In and Out of the City / 41

Economic Change and the Demise of the Artisan Order / 46

Celebrating the New Era / 55

Chapter Two: Labor in the Age of Jackson, 1825-1843 / 59

The Geography of Industrialization / 59

Cultural Response to Industrialization / 70

Holding onto the Familiar / 74

Religion, the Revivalists, and the New Work Ethic / 76

Radical Resistance to the New Industrial Order / 81

Chapter Three: The Industrial Worker in Free Labor America / 91

Lynn as a Microcosm / 91

Not Just Lynn / 96

Labor Reform and the Remaking of American Society / 103

Immigrant Workers Confront Nativism / 111

Black Workers in a White World / 115

Trade Unions on the Move in the 1850s / 121

Chapter Four: From the Civil War to the Panic of 1873 / 129

Labor and the War / 129

The Great Lockout of 1866 / 133

"Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, and Eight Hours for Recreation" / 137

Building a National Organization / 147

Epilogue: A Tradition of Labor Protest Persists / 159

Bibliographical Essay / 171

Index / 203
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labor; labor history; Industrial Revolution; Industrial Revolution in the United States; history of labor in America; the Great Strike of 1877; labor disputes; history of organized labor in the United States; labor economy in the United States; capitalist industrialization history; history of capitalism in America; capitalism and politics in America; industrial era in America; 19th century America; 19th century United States history; 19th century labor history; 19th century economy in America; 19th century factories; 19th century mill towns; 19th century industry; workers rights in 19th century America; history of labor in the United States