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Working People of Philadelphia, 1800–1850: Working People of Philadelphia, 1800–1850

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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part One: The Work Setting, 1800–1850
    1. 1. The Sources of Industrial Diversity
  10. Part Two: The Forging of Working-Class Cultures, 1820–1837
    1. 2. Revivalists: The Militias of Christ
    2. 3. Traditionalists: “The Boys of Pleasure”
    3. 4. Radicals: Thomas Paine’s Progeny
    4. 5. “We Are All Day Laborers”: The General Trades’ Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1833–1837
  11. Part Three: Hard Times, 1837–1844
    1. 6. “The Uses of Adversity”
  12. Part Four: Years of Discord, 1845–1850
    1. 7. Workers at Bay
    2. 8. Varieties of Radicalism
  13. Part Five: Epilogue
    1. 9. Radicalism United and Divided
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

Temple University Press

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

www.temple.edu/tempress

Copyright © 1980 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education

First published 1980. Reissued 2018.

All material in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 United States License unless otherwise noted. A copy of this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

ISBN 9781439917930 (paperback); ISBN 9781439917947 (ebook)

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The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.

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