The industrial worker, 1840-1860 : the reaction of American industrial society to the advance of the Industrial Revolution
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The industrial worker, 1840-1860 : the reaction of American industrial society to the advance of the Industrial Revolution
（Elephant paperbacks, EL 116）
I.R. Dee, c1990
- : pbk
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"Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1924"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index
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Besides the slavery issue, one of the major notes of American life in the years preceding the Civil War was created by the Industrial Revolution. It produced remarkable social and industrial upheavals which were repugnant to an astonishingly large numbers of Americans. Despite national prosperity, industrial workers suffered severe losses of economic status and independence; in protests grounded in religion and politics, they sought to hold on to what they had, and later to win material gains. Mr. Ware's illuminating book analyzes the conditions which brought on the Industrial Revolution, and traces and interprets the labor struggles that developed in response to the factory system.
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