Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (American Century Series)

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. Acknowledgments Contents Introduction 1 Household to Factory 2 Free Labor and Radical Labor 3 Movement Culture and Received Culture 4 Coming Apart 5 The Rise and Fall of the Knights of Labor 6 The Prudential Unionism of the American Federation of Labor Epilogue: Radicalism, Unionism, and the State Bibliographie Essay Index Integrates the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history. This title is suitable for the students of nineteenth-century America.