Free labor the Civil War and the making of an American working class
Prologue: The antebellum labor crisis: organized workers as a force in mid-nineteenth-century American historyPart I. Labor, liberty, and union -- Workers and the crisis of nationhood: the social republic, peace, and the union -- Continuities of class: the persistence of labor struggles -- Organized...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Urbana, Chicago, Springfield
University of Illinois Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | The working class in American history
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue: The antebellum labor crisis: organized workers as a force in mid-nineteenth-century American historyPart I. Labor, liberty, and union -- Workers and the crisis of nationhood: the social republic, peace, and the union -- Continuities of class: the persistence of labor struggles -- Organized labor goes to war: the fate of the old workers' movement -- Part II. Remaking the work force -- The great slave strike: emancipation and race -- The alienation of militancy: immigrants and the new white workingmen -- The survival of moral suasion: gender, sisterhood, and paternalism -- Part II. War, revolution, and labor -- New militancy across the union: the strike waves and labor movements of 1863 -- Richmond, New Orleans, Nashville: the diverse experience of urban labor in the south -- The state power: workers and the new authorities, north and south -- Part IV. Shaping the postwar order -- The emergence of labor reform: class, citizenship, and politics -- Toward a national labor presence: exploring the class limits of respectability -- A peace of sorts: labor, liberty, and respectability -- Epilogue: 1877: reconstructions of class. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 259 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780252080869 978-0-252-08086-9 9780252039331 978-0-252-03933-1 |