Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850 /
Sean Wilentz.
- xii, 446 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-431) and index.
Introduction : Stollenwerck's panorama, 1815 -- The artisan republic, 1788-1825 -- "By hammer and hand" : artisans in the mercantile city -- Artisan republicanism -- The bastard workshop, 1825-1850 -- Metropolitan industrialization -- Working man's advocates, 1825-1832 -- Entrepreneurs and radicals -- The rise and fall of the working men -- The journeymen's revolt, 1833-1836 -- "A phalanx of honest worth" : the general trades' union of the city of New York -- Oppositions : to the crisis of 1836 -- Hard times and politics, 1837-1849 -- Panic and prejudice -- Subterranean radicals -- Class conflict in the American metropolis -- The labor crisis of 1950 -- Epilogue : Hudson Street, 1965.
Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.
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