Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism (Working Class in American History) - Tapa dura

Libro 48 de 65: Working Class in American History

Wood, Betsy

 
9780252043444: Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism (Working Class in American History)
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ISBN 10: 0252043448 ISBN 13: 9780252043444
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2020

Sinopsis

Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.

Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.

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Betsy Wood is an assistant professor of history at Bard Early College.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252043448
ISBN 13 
9780252043444
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Número de páginas
266
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ISBN 10:  0252085345 ISBN 13:  9780252085345
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2020
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