Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
by Bruce Laurie
University of Illinois Press, 1989 Paper: 978-0-252-06660-3 Library of Congress Classification HD8070.L38 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.110973
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.