Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 / Bruce Laurie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1980Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource: mapContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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ISBN:
  • 9781439917947
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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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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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