Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Prologue: The Antebellum Labor Crisis: Organized Workers as a Force in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History 1
Part I Labor, Liberty, and Union
1 Workers and the Crisis of Nationhood: The Social Republic, Peace, and the Union 15
2 Continuities of Class: The Persistence of Labor Struggles 28
3 Organized Labor Goes to War: The Fate of the Old Workers' Movement 41
Part II Remaking the Workforce
4 The Great Slave Strike: Emancipation and Race 55
5 The Alienation of Militancy: Immigrants and the New White Workingroen 68
6 The Survival of Moral Suasion: Gender, Sisterhood, and Paternalism 81
Part III War, Revolution, and Labor
7 New Militancy across the Union: The Strike Waves and Labor Movements of 1863 95
8 Richmond, New Orleans, Nashville: The Diverse Experience of Urban Labor in the South 106
9 The State Power: Workers and the New Authorities, North and South 119
Part IV Shaping the Postwar Order
10 The Emergence of Labor Reform: Class, Citizenship, and Politics 133
11 Toward a National Labor Presence: Exploring the Class Limits of Respectability 145
12 A Peace of Sorts: Labor, Liberty, and Respectability 157
Epilogue: 1877: Reconstructions of Class 171
Notes 185
Index 249