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This is an overview of the impact of the Industrial Revolution and corporate capitalism on the development of the American working class over the course of the nineteenth century. America went from farms to factories, and most Americans went from economic independence to wage dependency.

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This is an overview of the impact of the Industrial Revolution and corporate capitalism on the development of the American working class over the course of the nineteenth century. America went from farms to factories, and most Americans went from economic independence to wage dependency.
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Autorenporträt
Eric Leif Davin, Ph.D., is the author of The Great Strike of 1877; Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960; Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office; and, with Staughton Lynd, Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Labor Party Movement, 1932-1936. He is also the author of The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor. His essay, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-1936," appeared in "We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s," (University of Illinois Press, 1996), edited by Staughton Lynd. It won the Eugene V. Debs Foundation's prize as the best essay of that year reflecting the enduring spirit of Eugene V. Debs.