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Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Bruce Laurie
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; KCF; KCZ; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3480 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066603
SKU
V9780252066603
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About Bruce Laurie
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.
Reviews for Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
"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 1919
David Brody, author of Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919