Norman Ware. The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860.

CONTENTS

Introduction

I – The State of the Nation

II – The Immigrant and the Homes of the Poor

III – “The Spirit of the Age”

IV – The Degradation of the Worker

V – The New Power: The Factory Controversy

VI – The New Power: The Dangers of Peternalism

VII – The Degradation of the Operative

VIII – The Ten-Hour Movement: Industrial, 1840-50

IX – The Change of Personnel

X – The Ten-Hour Movement: Political, 1850-60

XI – The Reformers: Associationists

XII – Land Reform

XIII – Cooperation

XIV – The Labor Movement: Defensive, 1840-50

XV – The Labor Movement: Aggressive, 1850-60

Selected Bibliography