Common Labor

Name: Common Labor
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801855221
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Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860

Autor: Peter Way

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new market...

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Autor

Peter Way

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

1997

Stránek

304

EAN

9780801855221

ISBN

0801855225

Enbook ID

04708678

Vydavatel

Johns Hopkins University Press

Hmotnost

425

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 19

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Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain important to this day. The work went forward using simple tools and the brute strength of men and animals, with diggers working twelve-hour days and suffering the ravages of disease and injury. In this highly acclaimed study, Peter Way challenges conventional views of the part these workers played in the early republic and of the culture they created. Increasingly made up of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in shanty towns hastily thrown up along the path of canal construction. Unlike the vibrant, proud working-class communities so beloved in labor history, these towns were the scene of considerable off-hours vice and violence. As wages fell throughout the 1830s, workers' discontent mounted to the point where riots were frequent and militia units often descended on the towns to enforce order. Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

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