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Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860

Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860


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Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America - opening up new markets, employing and army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain important to this day. The work went forward using simple tools and the brute strength of men and animals, with diggers working 12 hour days and suffering the ravages of disease and injury. In this study, the author challenges conventional views of the part these workers played in the early republic and of the culture they created. Increasingly made up of immigrants, he explains, the work force was housed in shanty towns hastily thrown up along the path of canal construction. Unlike the vibrant, proud working-class community so beloved in labour history, these towns were the scene of considerable off-hours vice and violence. As wages fell throughout the 1830s, workers' discontent mounted to the point where riots were frequent and militia units often descended on towns to enforce order. This work traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

About the Author :
Peter Way is Lecturer in American History, School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex.

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A provocative analysis of labor, social, and transportation history in our early national period. Journal of Southern History Extremely valuable... Well conceived, researched, and written. Journal of Social History Way's study of canal work and workers has filled a major empty spot in economic history. Journal of Economic History A major addition to the study of North American canals, describing who dug them, how they were dug, and under what conditions of labor. American Canals


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801855221
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801855225
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 489 gr


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