Working-class America : essays on labor, community, and American society

Introduction Michael H. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz ix The Social System of Early New England Textile Mills: A Case Study, 1812-40 Jonathan Prude 1 Artisan Republican Festivals and the Rise of Class Conflict in New York City, 1788-1837 Sean Wilentz 37 The Origins of the Sweatshop: Women and Early Industrialization in New York City Christine Stansell 78 The Uses of Political Power: Toward a Theory of the Labor Movement in the Era of the Knights of Labor Leon Fink 104 The Triumph of Commerce: Class Culture and Mass Culture in Pittsburgh Francis G. Couvares 123 Trade-Union Evangelism: Religion and the AFL in the Labor Forward Movement, 1912-16 Elizabeth and Kenneth Fones-Wolf 153 "The Customers Ain't God": The Work Culture of Department-Store Saleswomen, 1890-1940 Susan Porter Benson 185 Dress Rehearsal for the New Deal: Shop-Floor Insurgents, Political Elites, and Industrial Democracy in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Steve Fraser 212 Catholics, Communists, and Republicans: Irish Workers and the Organization of the Transport Workers Union Joshua B. Freeman 256 Conflict over Workers' Control: The Automobile Industry in World War II Nelson Lichtenstein 284 Notes on Contributors 312