Brian Greenberg

The Dawning of American Labor (eBook, ePUB)

The New Republic to the Industrial Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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. * Provides a concise, comprehensive, and completely up-to-date synthesis of the latest scholarship on the early development of industrialization in the United States * Considers how working people reacted, both in the workplace and in their communities, as the nation's economy made its shift from an agrarian to an industrial base * Includes a formal Bibliographical Essay--a handy tool for student research * Works as a stand-alone text or an ideal supplement to core curricula in US History, US Labor, and 19th-Century America Accessible introductory text for students in American history classes and beyond, The Dawning of American Labor is an excellent introduction to the history of labor in the United States for students and general readers of history alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119065555
• Artikelnr.: 52556140

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