Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurie, Bruce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1980.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
Social conditions
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Travailleurs > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Working class > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one. The work setting, 1800-1850
  • The sources of industrial diversity
  • Part two. The forging of working-class cultures, 1820-1837
  • Revivalists: the militias of Christ
  • Traditionalists: "the boys of pleasure"
  • Radicals: Thomas Paine's progeny
  • "We are all day laborers": the General Trades' Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1833-1837
  • Part three. Hard times, 1837-1844
  • "The uses of adversity"
  • Part four. Years of discord, 1845-1850
  • Workers at bay
  • Varieties of radicalism
  • Part five. Epilogue
  • Radicalism united and divided.

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