Citizen Worker
Subtitle: The Experience of Free Workers in the United States and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780521420570
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social classes; c 1800 to c 1900; Minority Studies - General; History Of Labor; U.S. Political History; Sociology; United States; History: American; USA; Political parties; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - General; History / United States / General; History; Working class; 19th century; Civil rights
First sentence: During the eighteenth century merchant capital had encouraged the production of commodities through a variety of labor systems, ranging from the total subjugation of the slave to such autonomy among artisans and yeomen as was seldom to be found in either previous or subsequent human experience.