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Citizen worker :

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Citizen worker :

[Book]

the experience of workers in the United States with democracy and the free market during the nineteenth century /

David Montgomery.

New York, NY, USA :

Cambridge University Press,

1993.

x, 189 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.

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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In the 1990s democracy and market freedom are often discussed as though they were either synonymous or interchangeable. The experience of workers in the United States reveals that as government became more democratic, what it could do to shape daily life became more restricted. The extent and failures of workers' efforts to exercise power through the political parties provide insights and warnings from the nineteenth century to guide our thinking about the twenty-first. When industrialization began in the United States, both free and bound labor supplied commodities whose flow was dominated by merchant capital, while the legacy of the Revolution made possible the inclusion of white males from society's lower strata in the active citizenry. The voting rights and freedom of association enjoyed by working-men hastened the dismantling of personal forms of subordination, most dramatically in the brief moment when African Americans claimed those rights after the destruction of slavery. Nevertheless, neither white nor black workers fashioned the new rules for a society based on wage labor. Both the shaping of economic development and the allocation of poor relief were effectively insulated from democratic control, while new forms of social domination disguised as freely contracted market and familial relationships were sanctioned by the courts, by the newly restructured police and military forces, and by the criminalization of unemployment. Workers' use of their access to political power on behalf of their visions of the commonweal challenged, but never defeated, the new style of class rule, which both strengthened government and limited its sphere of action.

University of South Alabama

Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Civil rights-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Democracy-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Political parties-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Working class-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Capitalisme-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Démocratie-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Droits de l'homme-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Partis politiques-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Travailleurs-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Arbeiders.

Arbeiterbewegung

Arbeiterklasse

Capitalism.

Civil rights.

Democracy.

Demokratie

Geschichte 1800-1900.

Kapitalismus

Markteconomie.

Political parties.

Politieke participatie.

Working class-- Political activity-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Working class-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Working class.

United States.

USA.

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Montgomery, David,1927-2011.

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