Uneasy allies : working for labor reform in nineteenth-century Boston / David A. Zonderman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zonderman, David A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century.

Labor policy.

Working class--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century.

Working class.

Labor movement--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century.

Labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 312 p. ) maps ;

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigates the shifting alliances between workers and middle-class reformers in nineteenth-century Boston.

Contents:

1830's/1870's

Awakenings : the first cross-class labor reform organizations, 1832/1848

Keeping the flame alive : the enduring vision of antebellum labor reform, 1848/1865

Acts of commission : labor reformers, activists, and the levers of political power, 1865/1870

The generation of 1869 : two leagues, a bureau, and a party

1870's/1900

Piety and protest : labor reform, religion, and mass demonstrations, 1872/1898

Spaces, places, and headquarters : workers, reformers, and the search for common ground, 1879/1900

New models for a new century : labor reform and the origins of the progressive movement, 1891/1900.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-055-8

OCLC:

794700518