Uneasy allies
Subtitle: working for labor reform in nineteenth-century Boston
By: David A. Zonderman
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781558498655; 9781558498662
Subjects: Labor policy; History; Working class; Labor movement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1830s/1870s; title: Awakenings : the first cross-class labor reform organizations, 1832/1848; title: Keeping the flame alive : the enduring vision of antebellum labor reform, 1848/1865; title: Acts of commission : labor reformers, activists, and the levers of political power, 1865/1870; title: The generation of 1869 : two leagues, a bureau, and a party; title: 1870s/1900; title: Piety and protest : labor reform, religion, and mass demonstrations, 1872/1898; title: Spaces, places, and headquarters : workers, reformers, and the search for common ground, 1879/1900; title: New models for a new century : labor reform and the origins of the progressive movement, 1891/1900.