In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical frame, Jentz and Schneirov examine...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Chapter 2. Supply-Chain Tourist -- or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Chapter 3. Historians...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue. The Antebellum Labor Crisis: Organized Workers as a Force in Mid-Nineteenth-Century -- Part I. Labor, Liberty, and Union -- 1. Workers and the Crisis of Nationhood: The Social Republic, Peace, and the...

Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labor, they asked, "What should...

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen...