HISTORY 40B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wage Labour
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Sectionalism: regional interests overpower in the union as a whole (south was having sectional interests) Wells (suffragette journalist, civil rights leader) all honest toil is noble because it is ordained of god that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow . Abraham lincoln i have always hated slavery as much as any abolitionist . Not in favor of slavery and wanted to stop its expansion throughout the country. He hoped the slavery in the south would wither and die without attacking it directly. All work in a free society is theoretically honorable. If you practice industry, thrift, self-discipline, and sobriety you can move up the ladder of success. Slave labor degrades the calling of manual labor by equating it with bondage. Free labor will stimulate men to work hard and efficiently and give them the desire to get ahead thus moving the nation forward. Wage labor with oppressive factory systems for women and immigrant men.