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.


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.


Reviews
"The first serious attempt to integrate the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history... Will be welcomed and widely read by students of nineteenth-century America." -- David Brody, author of Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919



Book Information
ISBN 9780252066603
Author Bruce Laurie
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 286g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 20mm