Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. A WORKERS' MOVEMENT -- 1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement -- 2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association -- 3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism -- Illustrations follow page 46 -- PART 2. THE AGRARIAN PERSUASION -- 4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society
5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology -- PART 3. THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL REFORM -- 7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists -- 8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism -- 9. The Republican Revolution: Victories beyond and by the Ballot -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Land Reform, Cooperationist, and Socialist Activities, 1844-52 -- Appendix B: The National Industrial Congresses -- Appendix C: New England Regional Associations
Appendix D: National Reform Songs and PoemsNotes -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-227) and index