Free labor the Civil War and the making of an American working class / Mark A. Lause.
| Author/creator | Lause, Mark A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015. |
| Description | xvi, 259 pages, [12] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The working class in American history |
| Contents | Prologue: The antebellum labor crisis: organized workers as a force in mid-nineteenth-century American history -- Part I. Labor, liberty, and union -- Workers and the crisis of nationhood: the social republic, peace, and the union -- Continuities of class: the persistence of labor struggles -- Organized labor goes to war: the fate of the old workers' movement -- Part II. Remaking the work force -- The great slave strike: emancipation and race -- The alienation of militancy: immigrants and the new white workingmen -- The survival of moral suasion: gender, sisterhood, and paternalism -- Part II. War, revolution, and labor -- New militancy across the union: the strike waves and labor movements of 1863 -- Richmond, New Orleans, Nashville: the diverse experience of urban labor in the south -- The state power: workers and the new authorities, north and south -- Part IV. Shaping the postwar order -- The emergence of labor reform: class, citizenship, and politics -- Toward a national labor presence: exploring the class limits of respectability -- A peace of sorts: labor, liberty, and respectability -- Epilogue: 1877: reconstructions of class. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-247) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015008312 |
| ISBN | 9780252039331 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780252080869 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |