Artisans Into Workers
LABOR in NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-252-06660-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the only modern study synthesizing nineteenth-century American labor
history, Bruce Laurie examines the character of working-class factionalism, plebian expectations of government, and relations between the organized few and the unorganized many. Laurie also examines the republican tradition and the movements that drew on it, from the General Trades Unions in the age of Jackson to the Knights of Labor later in the century.
history, Bruce Laurie examines the character of working-class factionalism, plebian expectations of government, and relations between the organized few and the unorganized many. Laurie also examines the republican tradition and the movements that drew on it, from the General Trades Unions in the age of Jackson to the Knights of Labor later in the century.
Reviews / Votes
"The first serious attempt to integrate the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history... Will be welcomed and widely read by students of nineteenth-century America." -- David Brody, author of Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-06660-3 (9780252066603)
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Person
Bruce Laurie, professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is co-editor of Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker and the author of Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850.