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Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century
by David Montgomery
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1993)
ISBN: 0521420571
EAN: 9780521420570
Dewy Decimal #: 305.562097309034
Hardcover: 189 pages
SKU: S06905-0857-VOP5
Condition: New
Comments: New Book. New condition. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy,
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Product Description
In the 1990s, democracy and market freedom are often discussed as though they were synonymous or interchangeable. What the experience of workers in the United States actually reveals is that as government became more democratic, what it could do to shape daily life became more restricted. This original and significant work examines the relationship between workers and government by focusing not on the legal regulations of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizens' rights. The extent and failures of workers' efforts to exercise power through political parties provide insights from the nineteenth century to guide our thinking about the twenty-first.
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