The dawning of American labor the New Republic to the Industrial Age 1st Edition by Brian Greenberg ISBN 9781119065555 1119065550

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ISBN 10: 1119065550

ISBN 13: 9781119065555

Author:  Brian Greenberg

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. This dream came crashing down in 1877 when the Great Strike, one of the most militant labor disputes in US history, convulsed the nation’s railroads. In The Dawning of American Labor a leading scholar of American labor history draws upon first-hand accounts and the latest scholarship to offer a fascinating look at how Americans perceived and adapted to the shift from a largely agrarian economy to one dominated by manufacturing.

For the generations following the Great Strike, “the Labor Problem” and the idea of class relations became a critical issue facing the nation. As Professor Greenberg makes clear in this lively, highly accessible historical exploration, the 1877 strike forever cast a shadow across one of the most deeply rooted articles of national faith―the belief in American exceptionalism. What conditions produced the faith in a classless society? What went wrong? These questions lie at the heart of The Dawning of American Labor.

Table of contents: 

Chapter One: Artisans in the New Republic, 1787–1825

1. The Artisan Workplace

2. The Political Economy of Early America

3. The Early Transformation of the Workplace

4. Rural Manufactures

5. The Economy of Seaport Cities

6. Manual Labor In and Out of the City

7. Economic Change and the Demise of the Artisan Order

8. Celebrating the New Era

Chapter Two: Labor in the Age of Jackson, 1825–1843

1. The Geography of Industrialization

2. Cultural Response to Industrialization

3. Holding onto the Familiar

4. Religion, the Revivalists, and the New Work Ethic

5. Radical Resistance to the New Industrial Order

Chapter Three: The Industrial Worker in Free Labor America

1. Lynn as a Microcosm

2. Not Just Lynn

3. Labor Reform and the Remaking of American Society

4. Immigrant Workers Confront Nativism

5. Black Workers in a White World

6. Trade Unions on the Move in the 1850s

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

1. Labor and the War

2. The Great Lockout of 1866

3. “Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, and Eight Hours for Recreation”

4. Building a National Organization

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