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Book Most Uncommon Jacksonians

Download or read book Most Uncommon Jacksonians written by Edward Pessen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1967-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Jackson saw the beginnings of America's labor movement in the emergence both of trade unions and of the Working Men's political parties. The leadership of this movement was one of its most outstanding and fascinating features. These radical leaders were "uncommon Jacksonians" in that they stood apart from both main currents of their day—the optimistic pursuit of material gain, and the moralistic criticism of that pursuit by traditionalists. They advocated a different, if minority, ideology, and it is this ideology that is Professor Pessen's major concern in this book. The labor spokesmen were as diverse and complex as the movement they led. Some were employers rather than laborers and even the union leaders included men who had never actually soiled their hands in manual toil. In a sense these leaders were middle-class idealists interested in every variety of reform. They were drawn to labor largely because they believed it the most productive as well as the most victimized group in American society. For all their differences, however, the leaders' social views were strikingly similar. They saw America as a class society dominated by the wealthy in general, capitalists in particular, with the control of government and the courts in the hands of the rich. Their picture of the contemporary social landscape was one marked by the poverty of the masses and vast disparities in wealth, power, and prestige. Greatly influenced by English radical thought, they rejected the Malthusian dictum that the poor were responsible for their own misery. They fixed the blame instead on a number of social institutions, the chief villain of which was private property. Without using the word "socialism," the leaders' vision of the good society was one in which no man profited from the labor of another, and the guiding principle was "to each according to his deeds." Though a complex and often inconsistent phenomenon, the political movement represented by the early Working Men's Parties was an authentic expression of labor's views, Professor Pessen believes. This study challenges the legend that organized labor enthusiastically supported Jackson, and the longstanding myth that American labor movements have characteristically been conservative. Most Uncommon Jacksonians adds new perspectives to the history of American social thought.

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A dictionary of books relating to America  from its discovery to the present time

Download or read book A dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Book Dictionary of Books relating to America

Download or read book Dictionary of Books relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Book History of Labour in the United States  Introduction  by J R  Commons  Colonial and federal beginnings  to 1827   by D J  Saposs  Citizenship  1827 1833   by Helen L  Sumner  Trade unionism  1833 1839   by E B  Mittelman  Humanitarianism  1840 1860   by H E  Hoagland

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States Introduction by J R Commons Colonial and federal beginnings to 1827 by D J Saposs Citizenship 1827 1833 by Helen L Sumner Trade unionism 1833 1839 by E B Mittelman Humanitarianism 1840 1860 by H E Hoagland written by John Rogers Commons and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Labour in the United States

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States written by John Rogers Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Labour in the United States  Introduction  by J  R  Commons  Colonial and federal beginnings  to 1827  by D  J  Saposs   Citizenship  1827 1833  by Helen L  Sumner   Trade unionism  1833 1839  by E  B  Mittelman   Humanitarianism  1840 1860  by H  E  Hoagland

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States Introduction by J R Commons Colonial and federal beginnings to 1827 by D J Saposs Citizenship 1827 1833 by Helen L Sumner Trade unionism 1833 1839 by E B Mittelman Humanitarianism 1840 1860 by H E Hoagland written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Perspectives on Jacksonian Parties and Politics

Download or read book New Perspectives on Jacksonian Parties and Politics written by Edward Pessen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Root and the Branch

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  • Author : Sean Griffin
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2024-06-11
  • ISBN : 151282593X
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book The Root and the Branch written by Sean Griffin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery movements with working-class demands for economic equality, access to the soil, and the right to the fruits of labor, Sean Griffin shows how labor reformers and radicals contributed to the antislavery project, from the development of free labor ideology to the Republican Party’s adoption of working-class land reform in the Homestead Act. By pioneering an antislavery politics based on an appeal to the self-interest of ordinary voters and promoting a radical vision of “free soil” and “free labor” that challenged liberal understandings of property rights and freedom of contract, labor reformers helped to birth a mass politics of antislavery that hastened the conflict with the Slave Power, while pointing the way toward future struggles over the meaning of free labor in the post-Emancipation United States. Bridging the gap between the histories of abolitionism, capitalism and slavery, and the origins of the Civil War, The Root and the Branch recovers a long-overlooked story of cooperation and coalition-building between labor reformers and abolitionists and unearths new evidence about the contributions of artisan reformers, transatlantic radicals, free Black activists, and ordinary working men and women to the development of antislavery politics. Based on painstaking archival research, The Root and the Branch addresses timely questions surrounding the relationships between slavery, antislavery, race, labor, and capitalism in the early United States.

Book Chants Democratic

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  • Author : Sean Wilentz
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-10-07
  • ISBN : 0198038917
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Chants Democratic written by Sean Wilentz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Impossible Dream

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  • Author : Bernard K. Johnpoll
  • Publisher : Praeger
  • Release : 1981-12-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by Bernard K. Johnpoll and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981-12-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: