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...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Rural Place and a Rural People -- Chapter 2. Building Factories in the Country -- Chapter 3. Rise of the Rural-Industrial Workers -- Chapter 4. Prosperous, Independent...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Coming Up the Hard Way -- 2. "Apostles of a New Order" -- 3. Able and Militant Fighters for Workers -- 4. "A Bunch of Fellows Who Have Taken the Declaration of Independence Seriously" -- 5. "The Most Powerful Union...

"This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Occupational Community of Waitressing -- 1. The Rise of Waitressing: Feminization, Expansion, and Respectability -- 2. Work Conditions and Work Culture -- Part 2: Watresses Turn to Economic and Political...

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Protestantism and Labor Reform Movements -- 1. A City of Industrial and Religious Extremes -- 2. Opening Eight-Hour Protests and the 1867 Eight-Hour Law -- 3. Eight Hours and the Financial Crisis of 1873 -- 4. Marching to Haymarket and...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Depressions and Working-Class Lives -- 1. Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry Gaetan Heroux a -- 2. Working People's Responses to Past Depressions David Montgomery -- 3....

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Clinton Jencks, Mine-Mill, and Biography as History -- Part I. Years of Preparation: Roots of Radicalism -- 1. Growing Up Concerned: Childhood, Family, and the Formation of a Value System,...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Chapter 2. Supply-Chain Tourist -- or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Chapter 3. Historians...