Counterfeiting Labor's Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

Author:   Mark A. Lause
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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9780252045783


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark A. Lause
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780252045783


ISBN 10:   0252045785
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Acknowledgments Prologue  Carsey’s Paternities: The Son of the Streets and the Odysseys of Father Columbia Paper Party Power Broker: The Entrepreneurial Roots of Labor Reform Insurgency Independents and Partisan Pantomimes: The Dilemma of Third Parties under a Two-Party System Counterfeiting Class: The Secret Society Tradition and the Deep Origins of the American Federation of Labor Monopolizing Antimonopolism: Ben Butler and the Preemption of Insurgency The Path through Populism: From Henry George to William Jennings Bryan Epilogue  Carsey’s Progeny: The Forgotten Grandfather of American Progressivism and the Political Unmaking of an American Working Class Notes Index

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“Lause, one of our most talented historians of nineteenth century America, spotlights the influential political huckster William A. A. Carsey. More than a century before the Tea Party’s phony ‘grass roots’ mobilizations, the underhanded techniques Carsey and his allies employed kept laborers from forming their own independent political organizations. An excellent study with a convincing answer to the age-old question: why no Labor Party in the U.S.?” --Chad E. Pearson, author of Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century


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Mark A. Lause is a professor in the department of history at the University of Cincinnati. His many books include Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era and Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class.

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