ISBN:
9780511528767
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5/62/097309034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte
;
Kapitalismus
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Working class / United States / History / 19th century
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Political parties / United States / History / 19th century
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Civil rights / United States / History / 19th century
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Capitalism / United States / History / 19th century
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Democracy / United States / History / 19th century
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Arbeiterklasse
;
Demokratie
;
Arbeiterbewegung
;
Kapitalismus
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Arbeiterbewegung
;
Demokratie
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
USA
;
Arbeiterklasse
;
Demokratie
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
USA
;
Kapitalismus
;
Arbeiterklasse
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship. The Right to Quit. Free Labor in the Shadow of Slavery. Quitting and Getting Paid. Citizenship and the Terms of Employment -- 2. Policing People for the Free Market. The Definition and Prosecution of Crime. The Privatization of Poor Relief. The Crime of Idleness. Arms and the Man. Police Powers and Workers' Homes -- 3. Political Parties. Black Workers and the Republicans in the South. Industrial Workers and Party Politics. Workers and Tammany Hall. Labor Reform and Electoral Politics. Citizenship and the Unseen Hand
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511528767
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