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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject Area
- Economic Sociology
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Subject
- Economics
- Level
- Advanced
- ISBN
- 9780521483803
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521483808
ISBN-13
9780521483803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
847143
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Citizen Worker : The Experience of Free Workers in the United States and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century
Publication Year
1995
Subject
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / 19th Century, Civil Rights, Political Process / Political Parties, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"...distinguished by an uncompromising insistence on the human costs of capitalism....this historian's work retains the power to convince, and by convincing to move." Stuart M. Blumin, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, "No one knows the world of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century worker better than Montgomery...Montgomery gives us a vivid picture of the nineteenth century...Montgomery provides a sweeping analysis of the changing conditions of workers' lives, with detailed nuances that capture daily situations. Significant analysis coupled with pithy examples enrich this book...let me also say this book did speak to me...Montgomery reminds us of our legacy." Comptes rendus, "To understand the ideological and social transformations at work in that era one could have no better guide than David Montgomery, the nation's foremost labor historian, whose scholarship and commitment have inspired an entire generation of social historians. Montgomery's book is short but rich, full of explosive insights and subtle distinctions. A master of his trade, he synthesizes an enormous body of scholarship to explain a great historical paradox....Citizen Worker is one of those books that remind us of the questions we have forgotten how to ask....Answers are hard to come by, but David Montgomery's meticulous scholarship and radical sensibility get us started in the right direction." Nelson Lichtenstein, The Nation, "...masterful account of the development of the free market economy... Montgomery's provocative and persuasive synthesis is a major contribution to historians' understanding of the 19th century. But the book's importance goes well betond the academic arena...Citizen Worker is a springboard for thinking about the market economy and the relationship between political and economic democracy." Union Labor News, "The fundamental strength of this book lies in its capacity to recast the experience of nineteenth-century workers within a questioning that is at once elegantly simple and enticingly all-encompassing....No compressed summary can do justice to this book. It needs to be read, and reread, and its immersion in the texture of working-class life appreciated." Bryan D. Palmer, Journal of American History, "...an important contribution to American labor history that no student or scholar in the field will want to miss." Ohio History, "...it is a seedbed for the eventual flowering of people's culture."Ray B. Browne, Journal of American Culture, "...it is a seedbed for the eventual flowering of people's culture." Ray B. Browne, Journal of American Culture, "Citizen Worker is an extraordinarily significant work. It asks big questions, frames them in the largest perspectives, and answers them with great historical imagination and deep knowledge of the American past." Ira Berlin, The University of Maryland, "...as with most good history, its value resides in the details. Every aspect of his argument is backed up with bundles of fitting quotes and anecdotes." Washington Post
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.5620973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Wage-Labor, Bondage and Citizenship: 1. The Right to Quit; 2. Free Labor in the Shadow of Slavery; 3. Quitting and Getting Paid; 4. Citizenship and the Terms of Employment; Part II. Policing People for the Free Market: 5. The Definition and Prosecution of Crime; 6. The Privatization of Poor Relief; 7. The Crime of Idleness; 8. Arms and the Man; 9. Police Powers and Workers' Homes; Part III. Political Parties: 10. Black Workers and Republicans in the South; 11. Industrial Workers and Party Politics; 12. Workers and Tammany Hall; 13. Labor Reform and Electoral Politics; 14. Citizenship and the Unseen Hand; Bibliography.
Synopsis
In the 1990s, democracy and market freedom are often discussed as though they were synonymous or interchangeable. What the experience of workers in the United States actually reveals is that as government became more democratic, what it could do to shape daily life became more restricted. This original and significant work examines the relationship between workers and government by focusing not on the legal regulations of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizens' rights. The extent and failures of workers' efforts to exercise power through political parties provide insights from the nineteenth century to guide our thinking about the twenty-first., David Montgomery discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights., This book discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights. This discussion includes the role of democracy in the dismantling of indentured servitude, judicial decisions shaping the rights and obligations of the development of vagrancy law and of municipal police forces. The book also examines the role of the Democratic, Republican, and Know Nothing parties in shaping popular political culture and in mobilising and channeling the political activity of white and black workers.
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