The Dawning of American Labor: The New Republic to the Industrial Age

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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

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