The Dawning of American Labor: The New Republic to the Industrial Age

ISBN-13: 9781119065685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str.

Greenberg, Brian

Opis

A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyond From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitalist industrial economy without the class conflict or negative socioeconomic consequences experienced in Europe.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Brian Greenberg, PhD Emeritus Professor Emeritus Jules Plangere Chair in American Social History.

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