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Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and Rise a New American Sectionalism
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Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and Rise a New American Sectionalism
Current price: $110.00
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Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and Rise a New American Sectionalism
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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.