Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA / Edition 1

by Bruce Laurie

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780252066603
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Series:	American Century Series
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.