Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 /
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1980.
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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.