| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : map |
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Introduction -- Part one. The work setting, 1800-1850 -- The sources of industrial diversity -- Part two. The forging of working-class cultures, 1820-1837 -- Revivalists: the militias of Christ -- Traditionalists: "the boys of pleasure" -- Radicals: Thomas Paine's progeny -- "We are all day laborers": the General Trades' Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1833-1837 -- Part three. Hard times, 1837-1844 -- "The uses of adversity" -- Part four. Years of discord, 1845-1850 -- Workers at bay -- Varieties of radicalism -- Part five. Epilogue -- Radicalism united and divided |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Social conditions
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Working class.
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| SUBJECT |
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
79028679 |
| ISBN |
9781439917947 |
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1439917949 |
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