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Sommario
List of Figures / vii
Acknowledgments / ix
Prologue: American Exceptionalism and the Great Strike of 1877 / 1
Chapter One: Artisans in the New Republic, 1787-1825 / 11 The Artisan Workplace / 11
The Political Economy of Early America / 15
The Early Transformation of the Workplace / 26
Rural Manufactures / 28
The Economy of Seaport Cities / 38
Manual Labor In and Out of the City / 41
Economic Change and the Demise of the Artisan Order / 46
Celebrating the New Era / 55
Chapter Two: Labor in the Age of Jackson, 1825-1843 / 59 The Geography of Industrialization / 59
Cultural Response to Industrialization / 70
Holding onto the Familiar / 74
Religion, the Revivalists, and the New Work Ethic / 76
Radical Resistance to the New Industrial Order / 81
Chapter Three: The Industrial Worker in Free Labor America / 91 Lynn as a Microcosm / 91
Not Just Lynn / 96
Labor Reform and the Remaking of American Society / 103
Immigrant Workers Confront Nativism / 111
Black Workers in a White World / 115
Trade Unions on the Move in the 1850s / 121
Chapter Four: From the Civil War to the Panic of 1873 / 129 Labor and the War / 129
The Great Lockout of 1866 / 133
"Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, and Eight Hours for Recreation" / 137
Building a National Organization / 147
Epilogue: A Tradition of Labor Protest Persists / 159
Bibliographical Essay / 171
Index / 203
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Brian Greenberg, PhD Emeritus Professor Emeritus Jules Plangere Chair in American Social History.
