Upon the Altar of Work Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism 1st Edition by Betsy Wood ISBN 0252052323 9780252052323

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ISBN 10: 0252052323

ISBN 13: 9780252052323

Author:  Betsy Wood 

Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism 1st Edition: Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.

Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.

 

Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Fields of Free Labor: Child Rescue and Sectional Crisis
2 Testing Ground of Freedom: Child Labor in the Age of Emancipation
3 Seeds of a New Sectionalism: Southern Origins of Child Labor Reform
4 Child Labor Abolitionists: A Northern Progressive Vision
5 Cultural Warriors: A Southern Capitalist Vision

 

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