| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Working Class in American History |
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Working class in American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue. The Antebellum Labor Crisis: Organized Workers as a Force in Mid-Nineteenth-Century; Part I. Labor, Liberty, and Union; 1. Workers and the Crisis of Nationhood: The Social Republic, Peace, and the Union; 2. Continuities of Class: The Persistence of Labor Struggles; 3. Organized Labor Goes to War: The Fate of the Old Workers' Movement; Part II. Remaking the Work Force; 4. The Great Slave Strike: Emancipation and Race; 5. The Alienation of Militancy: Immigrants and the New White Workingmen. |
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6. The Survival of Moral Suasion: Solidarity, Sisterhood, and PaternalismPart III. War, Revolution, and Labor; 7. New Militancy across the Union: The Strike Waves and Labor Movements of 1863; 8. Richmond, New Orleans, Nashville: The Diverse Experience of Urban Labor in the South; 9. The State Power: Workers and the New Authorities, North and South; Part IV. Shaping the Postwar Order; 10. The Emergence of Labor Reform: Class, Citizenship, and Politics; 11. Toward a National Labor Presence: Exploring the Class Limits of Respectability; 12. A Peace of Sorts: Labor, Liberty, and Respectability. |
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Epilogue. 1877: Reconstructions of ClassNotes; Index. |
| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
National catastrophe and the evolution of the labor movement. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription History Reference Center Collection |
| Subject |
Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
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Labor movement. (OCoLC)fst00990079
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Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
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Working class -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01180525
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Free labor Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015. 9780252039331 (hbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015008312 |
| ISBN |
9780252097386 ebk. |
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0252097386 |
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9780252039331 hbk. : acid-free paper |
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9780252080869 pbk. : acid-free paper |
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0252039335 |
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9780252039331 |
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0252080866 |
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