Lause, Mark A.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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Part of the series The working class in American history;Working class in American history.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-247) and index.
• 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.

Subjects:

• Working class — United States — History — 19th century.
• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects.
• Working class — United States — Social conditions — 19th century.
• Labor movement — United States — History — 19th century.
• United States — Social conditions — 19th century.
• American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
• Labor movement. fast (OCoLC)fst00990079
• Social aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01354981
• Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811
• Working class. fast (OCoLC)fst01180418
• Working class — Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01180525
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1800 – 1899 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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