37:575:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict, Spoils System
15 Mar 2016
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Provide an analysis of these understandings that connected rights in the workplace to broader democratic rights. As large industrial and financial institutions secured ever-greater economic and political power, ordinary. Americans of all ethnic backgrounds found themselves increasingly subject to forces beyond their control. In communities based on shared ethnic and craft traditions, working people"s daily interactions and the organizations they formed fostered support and solidarity for individuals. Those communities and organizations also nourished resistance to employers and to capitalism itself, in a wide spectrum of protest and class conflict that marked the era. An economic and political system in which a country"s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Largely unfair to middle and low class people. Allowed transportation, promoting economic development across the continent. Small producers who had once dominated the local markets faced more distant competitions. People were forced to transition from self-employment to wage work.
