Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition

Книга Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working... Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850Книги English литература Автор: Sean Wilentz Год издания: 2004 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press Страниц: 480 Размер: 23,4 ISBN: 019517450X Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Review"The best book yet written about the emergence of New York City's working class and a major contribution to American working-class history."--The New Republic"[Chants Democratic] has no equal in breadth of subject, grace of style or acuity of interpretation."--The Nation"Wilentz has written the statement on Jacksonian New York.... A great leap forward in both American social and American political history."--Journal of American History"A remarkable book that will quickly establish itself in the historiography and exert a powerful influence on the future direction of social, labor, and political history."--Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryProduct DescriptionSince its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class. Contents......Page 20 Introduction: Stollenwerck's Panorama, 1815......Page 26 I: The Artisan Republic, 1788–1825......Page 44 1. "By Hammer and Hand": Artisans in the Mercantile City......Page 46 The Crafts in Flux......Page 47 Entrepreneurs......Page 58 Small Masters......Page 65 Journeymen......Page 71 A Restive Peace......Page 83 2. Artisan Republicanism......Page 84 Redeeming the Revolution......Page 86 Republican Religion......Page 100 "Articels Emblemattical of Our Trade"......Page 110 Republicanism and Conflict......Page 120 Artisan Republicanism and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism......Page 124 II: The Bastard Workshop, 1825–1850......Page 128 3. Metropolitan Industrialization......Page 130 Metropolitan Manufacturing and the Bastardization of Craft......Page 131 The Sweated Trades: Clothing, Shoes, and Furniture......Page 142 Technology and the Division of Labor: Printing......Page 152 Subcontracting and the Building Trades......Page 155 The Persistence of Tradition: Shipbuilding and Food Preparation......Page 157 Craft Workers in the Industrializing Metropolis......Page 163 III: Working Man's Advocates, 1825–1832......Page 166 Entrepreneurial Crusades: Moral Reform and Political Economy......Page 168 Impious Artisans and the Uses of Morality......Page 176 Property, Producers' Rights, and the Assault on Competition......Page 180 The Outcasts Organize......Page 191 Background to Crisis......Page 194 Republicanism, Party Democracy, and Politics......Page 195 Dramatis Personae......Page 199 The Radical Movement......Page 213 The Coup......Page 224 The End......Page 231 Artisan Radicalism and the Paradoxes of Politics......Page 234 IV: The Journeymen's Revolt, 1833–1836......Page 252 6. "A Phalanx of Honest Worth": The General Trades' Union of the City of New York......Page 254 Union Men......Page 255 Union Democracy......Page 262 Strikes and Politics......Page 265 Class Consciousness and the Republic of Labor......Page 272 The Boundaries of Class......Page 283 Radicalism and the Union......Page 289 7. Oppositions: To the Crisis of 1836......Page 290 The Republic of the Bowery......Page 292 The Masters: Toward an Ideology of Free Labor......Page 306 The Crisis of 1836......Page 321 The Legacy of Union......Page 329 V: Hard Times and Politics, 1837–1849......Page 332 8. Panic and Prejudice......Page 334 Free Labor and the Republic of Capital......Page 337 The Jovial Hurrah: Washingtonian Temperance......Page 341 American Republicanism: Nativism, Mutuality, and Liberty......Page 350 Reformation......Page 359 Mike Walsh and the Shirtless Democracy......Page 361 Land Reform......Page 370 Plebeian Protestants: The American Laboring Confederacy and the Mechanics' Mutual......Page 378 Trade Societies, Immigrants, and Labor Radicalism......Page 384 Radicalism and Self-Respect......Page 391 VI: Class Conflict in the American Metropolis......Page 396 10. The Labor Crisis of 1950......Page 398 Movements and Men......Page 399 To City Hall......Page 407 The Tailors' Strike......Page 412 Party Politics, Dissolution, and the Aftermath......Page 418 Conclusion: "The Most Radical City in America,"......Page 421 Epilogue: Hudson Street, 1865......Page 426 Appendix: Tables and Figures......Page 432 Bibliographical Essay......Page 458 A......Page 468 B......Page 469 C......Page 470 E......Page 471 G......Page 472 J......Page 473 M......Page 474 N......Page 475 P......Page 476 S......Page 477 U......Page 479 W......Page 480 Y......Page 481 Plates......Page 240 Maps......Page 455

Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.

Focusing on the working class, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that took place during the early industrialization of New York City.

Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.

This text provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labour strife, social movements and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson