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Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century

by David Montgomery

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This book discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights. This discussion includes the role of democracy in the dismantling of indentured servitude, judicial decisions shaping the rights and obligations of the development of vagrancy law and of municipal police forces. The book also examines the role of the Democratic, Republican, and Know Nothing parties in shaping show more popular political culture and in mobilising and channeling the political activity of white and black workers. show less

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DDC/MDS: 305.5 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by social and economic levels
LCC: HD8072 .M728 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By region or country
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Published: 1993
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 305.5
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