Northern Society and

The Growth of Wage Labor

1790–1837

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The Early-Nineteenth-Century North

Republican Ideology

Rural Society in the North

Towns and Commerce

A Transformation Begins

Population Pressure and Westward Movements

Roads, Bridges, Canals, Steamboats and Railroads

Role of Immigration in The Start of an Industrial Revolution

Industrialization and Social Stratification

Excerpt From a Mill Manager's Diary

End of First Lecture

To Be Continued

Wage Labor and Resistance

Artisans

Outworkers

Manual Laborers and Factory Operatives

The Workingmen’s Movement

Strikes and Protests

Two Outlooks: Morality or the Market?

Democracy and Class in Jacksonian Society

Politics and the Second Party System: Democrats vs. Whigs

Gender, Domesticity, and the Emergence of a “Middling Class”

The Second Great Awakening

Depression and Crisis in Northern Society