Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class. |
Contents
Stollenwercks Panorama 1815 | 3 |
By Hammer and Hand Art1sans In the Mercantile City | 23 |
The Crafts in Flux | 24 |
Entrepreneurs | 35 |
Small Masters | 42 |
Journeymen | 48 |
A Restive Peace | 60 |
Artisan Republicanism | 61 |
Union Men | 220 |
Union Democracy | 227 |
Strikes and Politics | 230 |
Class Consciousness and the Republic of Labor | 237 |
Radicalism and the Union | 254 |
Oppositions To the Crisis of 1836 | 255 |
The Republic of the Bowery | 257 |
Toward an Ideology of Free Labor | 271 |
Redeeming the Revolution | 63 |
Republican Religion | 77 |
Articels Emblemattical of Our Trade | 87 |
Republicanism and Conflict | 97 |
Artisan Republicanism and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism | 101 |
Metropolitan Industrialization | 107 |
Metropolitan Manufacturing and the Bastardization of Craft | 108 |
Clothing Shoes and Furniture | 119 |
Printing | 129 |
Subcontracting and the Building Trades | 132 |
Shipbuilding and Food Preparation | 134 |
Craft Workers in the Industrializing Metropolis | 140 |
Entrepreneurs and Radicals | 145 |
Impious Artisans and the Uses of Morality | 153 |
Property Producers Rights and the Assault on Competition | 157 |
The Outcasts Organize | 168 |
Background to Crisis | 171 |
The Rise and Fall of the Working Men | 172 |
Dramatis Personae | 176 |
The Radical Movement | 190 |
The Coup | 201 |
The End | 208 |
Artisan Radicalism and the Paradoxes of Politics | 211 |
A Phalanx of Honest Worth The General Trades Union of the City of New York | 219 |
The Crisis of 1836 | 286 |
The Legacy of Union | 294 |
Panic and Prejudice | 299 |
Free Labor and the Republic of Capital | 302 |
Washingtonian Temperance | 306 |
Nativism Mutuality and Liberty | 315 |
Reformation | 324 |
Subterranean Radicals | 326 |
Land Reform | 335 |
The American Laboring Confederacy and the Mechanics Mutual | 343 |
Trade Societies Immigrants and Labor Radicalism | 349 |
Radicalism and SelfRespect | 356 |
The Labor Cr1s1s of 1850 | 363 |
Movements and Men | 364 |
To City Hall | 372 |
The Tailors Strike | 377 |
Party Politics Dissolution and the Aftermath | 383 |
The Most Radical City in America | 386 |
Ep1logue Hudson Street 1865 | 391 |
Appendix | 397 |
Bibliographical Essay | 423 |
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