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Response to Sean Wilentz,“Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790–1920”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
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New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 26 , Fall 1984 , pp. 25 - 30
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1984

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References

1. The phrase is Dawley, Alan’s in Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn(Cambridge, Mass., 1976).Google Scholar As Wilentz suggests, this approach is by no means limited to Dawley.

2. Rock, Howard B., Artisans of the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson (New York, 1979),183–197.Google Scholar For an early yet central statement of this corporatist philosophy, complete with a theological defense of class distinctions, seeWinthrop, John, “A Model of Christian Charity,” in Miller, Perry Johnson, Thomas A.(ed.). The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings (New York, 1963),195–199.Google Scholar

3. Quoted inKaufman, Stuart BruceSamuel Gompers and the Origins of the AFL (Westport.Ct., 1973), 86;Google Scholar on Fincher, see Commons, John R., etal.. History of Labour in the United States(New York, 1918, 2 vols.), 11, 93–94.Google Scholar

4. Quoted inReed, Louis S., The Labor Philosophy of Samuel Gompers (New York, 1930), 57.Google Scholar

5. For a fuller discussion of this theme, seemy introduction to the abridged edition of Gompers, Samuel, Seventy Years of Life and Labor (Ithaca, N.Y., 1984, forthcoming).Google Scholar

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7. Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs, 302.

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