Brian Greenberg

The Dawning of American Labor

The New Republic to the Industrial Age

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781119065708
• ISBN-10: 1119065704
• Artikelnr.: 47820098

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: American Exceptionalism and the Great Strike of 1877
Chapter 1: Artisans in the New Republic, 1787-1825
The Artisan Workplace
The Political Economy of Early America
The Early Transformation of the Workplace
Rural Manufactures
The Economy of Seaport Cities
Manual Labor In and Out of the City
Economic Change and the Demise of the Artisan Order
Celebrating the New Era
Chapter 2: Labor in the Age of Jackson, 1825-1843
The Geography of Industrialization
Cultural Response to Industrialization
Holding Onto the Familiar
Religion, the Revivalists, and the New Work Ethic
Radical Resistance to the New Industrial Order
Chapter 3: The Industrial Worker in Free Labor America
Lynn as a Microcosm
Not Just Lynn
Labor Reform and the Remaking of American Society
Immigrant Workers Confront Nativism
Black Workers in a White World
Trade Unions on the Move in the 1850s
Chapter 4: From the Civil War to the Panic of 1873
Labor and the War
The "Great Lockout" of 1866
"Eight Hours for Labor, Eight for Recreation, and Eight for Rest"
Building a National Organization
Epilogue: A Tradition of Labor Protest Persists
Bibliographical Essay
Index