Find Class And Community: The Industrial Revolution In Lynn Created By Alan Dawley Shown In Document

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MA to try and discover the origins of an American working class consciousness, The book recounts the old story of the stages of the industrial revolution, from outwork, to the factory, A working class was developing in thes, but since America extended the franchise to all white men, unlike Europe, workers bought into dominant capitalist political economy.
The lack of traditional hierarchies and general economic prosperity made it easier for workers to move up the social ladder, and eschew whatever labor ideology they held for bourgeois free market sympathies.
Dawley argues that this working class consciousness did emerge around, The unifying ideological impulse was a demand for "Equal Rights" that were slowly being eroded by demands of factory workers who controlled ever larger amounts capital BeckertMonied Metropolis.
Dawley characterizes groups such as the Knights of St, Crispin and the Knights of Labor as broad based, full of Yankees and Irish, men and women, A persistent impulse toward radical democracy gradually led to class consciousness by the end of the century, opening the door for more socialist alternatives,
In this twentyfifth anniversary edition of his Bancroft Prizewinning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century.
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