Bryan D. Palmer shows how the disruptive influence of devel- oping industrial capitalism was counterbalanced by the stabilizing effect of the associational life of the workingman, ranging from the fraternal order and the mechanics' institute to the baseball diamond and the "rough music" of the charivari. [...] Third, an attempt is made to chronicle the emerg- ing patterns of class conflict, revealed in the nine-hour struggle of 1872, the upsurge of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s, and the "new union- ism" of the pre-World War I year. [...] Integrating fragments of a national economy and linking it to the outside markets of the world, the early canal and railway endeavours of the 1840s and 1850s stand as mile- stones in the launching of the process of capitalist development.° Impor- tant, too, was the transformation of work necessitated by the building of these arteries. [...] This refinement, in turn, transformed the tool into the machine, and with the development of machinery occurred a fundamental change in the historical develop- ment of the productive process: the breakthrough into the Age of Modern Industry.26 The transition occurred in the following manner: Manufacture produced the machinery, by means of which Modern Industry abolished the handicraft and manufact [...] The apparently widespread practice of "truck payment" and the in- dignation with which the Gazette greeted the introduction of what would become, in later years, a common feature of capital-labour relations, attest to the precapitalist contours of the local economy as late as 1852.45 At the same time, the mechanics' opposition, and the emergence of sweating as a common practice, indicate that the
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 3
- Copyright 4
- Dedication 5
- Contents 7
- Illustrations 8
- Preface 10
- Part I Context 18
- Chapter 1 Disciplines and Development 20
- Part II Culture 50
- Chapter 2 In Street and Field and Hall 52
- Chapter 3 The Culture of Control 88
- Chapter 4 Reform Thought and the Producer Ideology 119
- Part III Conflict 145
- Chapter 5 Merchants of Their Time 147
- Chapter 6 Labour's Lordly Chivalry 181
- Chapter 7 The New Unionism 227
- Part IV Conclusion 263
- Chapter 8 Dimensions of Continuity and Change 265
- NOTES 275
- INDEX 353