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: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781119065685
• ISBN-10: 1119065682
• Artikelnr.: 47828964

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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