Title Free labor : the Civil War and the making of an American working class / Mark A. Lause

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Working Class in American History Working class in American history. 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 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 Epilogue. 1877: Reconstructions of ClassNotes; Index Summary National catastrophe and the evolution of the labor movement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on print version record Subject Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Social conditions Social aspects Labor movement Working class Working class -- Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019718521 ISBN 9780252097386 0252097386 0252039335 9780252039331

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