- ISBN: 9780801499593 | 0801499593
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1992
| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| A Note on Abbreviations and Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Apprentices and Youths: Freedom, Ambition, and Tradition | p. 24 |
| "Endeavored . . . to Excel My Fellow Apprentices": Stephen Allen, the Good Apprentice | p. 26 |
| "A Spirit of Republican Festivity": Alexander Anderson, the Inquiring Apprentice | p. 33 |
| "Hard Work and Myself Had Had a Falling Out": William Otter, the Wicked Apprentice | p. 44 |
| "Awarding the Intelligent and Persevering Apprentice": Masters Encourage Their Disciples | p. 50 |
| "Who Can Tell How Many Franklins May Be among You?": Thomas Mercein on the Opening of the Apprentices' Library in 1820 | p. 51 |
| "A Little Wholesome Chastisement": Assault and Battery on Jesse Fash | p. 57 |
| "No Community of Interest, . . . No Community of Feeling": "All Old Apprentice" Laments Modern Times | p. 57 |
| "Instruments of Deafening and Discordant Sound": New York's Youths Form the Callithumpian Procession | p. 62 |
| Journeymen: The Quest for Respectability | p. 66 |
| "One Bed, One Cup, One Knife and Fork, Table, and Chair, Is Enough": The Life of Grant Thorburn | p. 70 |
| "A World of Trials, Troubles, and Vexations": The Life and Death of George Hart | p. 79 |
| "Speaking to the Judge as Familiarly as If He Were a Common Mechanic": Letter of John Doyle to His Wife, 1818 | p. 83 |
| "None But Persons of Good Character": The Constitution of the New-York Journeymen Shipwrights Society | p. 87 |
| "He Is Sorry For All That He Has Done": Minutes of the Union Society of Shipwrights and Caulkers | p. 91 |
| "Printing Shall Live and Freedom Reign": Samuel Woodworth, Journeyman Poet | p. 96 |
| "To Render an Art Respectable": The New York Typographical Society's Appeal against Halfway Journeymen | p. 97 |
| "The Duties Which Society Owes to Individuals": Carpenters' Strike Manifesto, 1810 | p. 101 |
| "Most Tyrannical Violations of Private Right": The Prosecution of the Journeyman Cordwainers | p. 104 |
| "Combining against Starvation": The Defense of the Journeyman Cordwainers | p. 110 |
| "Out of Our Power": The New York Typographical Society Responds to the Cordwainers' Trial | p. 113 |
| "The Well Known Liberality of the Citizens": Journeyman Shoemakers Open a Store | p. 114 |
| "The Justice and Utility of the Republican Cause": Journeymen and Politics | p. 115 |
| Master Craftsmen: Competence, Independence, and Leadership | p. 121 |
| "By Industry and Strict Attention to Business": The Autobiography of Stephen Allen | p. 122 |
| "Forge Me Strong, Finish Me Neat, I Soon Shall Moor a Federal Fleet": Mechanics and the Grand Federal Procession | p. 128 |
| "As Virtuous as the Generality of Mankind": A Defense of the Bakers and Artisan Enterprise | p. 132 |
| "Arbitrary in the Highest Degree": Jonas Humbert Argues for a Return to Free Enterprise | p. 139 |
| "A Wife and a Numerous Family to Support by His Industry": Price Gouging by a Cartman | p. 141 |
| "Rights, Liberties and Privalages": The Cartmen and the Irish Alien Drivers | p. 145 |
| "Employment in Their Own Country": New York's Shipwrights Appeal to Congress | p. 148 |
| "Nursed by Guardian Care": Master Craftsmen on the Necessity of Protecting American Manufactures | p. 149 |
| "Culpable Forgeries, Wicked Fabrications, and Malicious Calumnies": The Cartmen and Thomas Jefferson | p. 154 |
| "Patriotism, Humanity, and the Love of Fat Beef": Toasts of the Butchers' Benevolent Society | p. 157 |
| "National Deliverance": The Fourth of July Oration of Peter Wendover, Sailmaker | p. 160 |
| Waterfront Workers: Afloat and Ashore | p. 170 |
| "Scenes of Wretchedness, Disease, and Woe": Aboard the Prison Ship Jersey | p. 172 |
| "Some Drinking, Some Swearing, Some Fighting, Some Singing": Gotham's Waterfront Dance Halls | p. 176 |
| "A Matrass Made of Cattails": On the Character and Condition of Seamen | p. 180 |
| "To Put a Marlinspike in a Man's Hand": Richard Henry Dana Describes an Able Seaman | p. 185 |
| "A Wretched and Undone Sinner": The Reverend Henry Chase and the Mariners' Church | p. 190 |
| "How and Where Mr. Landlord Chooses to Send Him": The Mariners' Boardinghouse | p. 193 |
| "Not Objects of Pity Yet": The Sailors and the Embargo of 1808 | p. 199 |
| "Traversed the Docks with Drums and Colors": The Sailors on Strike in 1802 | p. 204 |
| "Guilty of Some Irregularities": The Dockworkers on Strike in 1828 | p. 206 |
| African Americans: Extending the Bounds of Republicanism | p. 208 |
| "A Decided Advocate for American Independence": Reverend Peter Williams, Jr., Recalls His Father | p. 212 |
| "An Ignominious Death": The Life of James Johnson | p. 215 |
| "Stripped like So Many Squirrels": A Mob Attacks the African Grove, a Black Theater | p. 216 |
| "A Torrent of Clamarous Abuse": Tubmen Disturb the Neighborhood | p. 218 |
| "These Disagreeable Screamings": The Howls of the Chimney Sweeps | p. 221 |
| "Contending for the Prize": "Shake-Down" Dancing at the Catherine Market | p. 224 |
| "Admitting Very Disorderly Persons": William Brooks Keeps an Unruly Oyster House | p. 228 |
| "They Must Not Suffer the Man to Be Taken Away": The African-American Community and Fugitive Slaves | p. 230 |
| "Don't Carry Your Head Too High": Tradesmen and the Search for Respectability | p. 231 |
| "If He Cut Coloured Men": Segregation in a Barber Shop | p. 235 |
| "All Men Are Born Free": Celebrating the Abolition of the Slave Trade | p. 237 |
| "The Attempt to Disenfranchise People of Color": Defending Suffrage | p. 239 |
| "We Stand Redeemed from a Bitter Thraldom": Abolition and the Spirit of '76 | p. 241 |
| Women: In and Beyond the Household | p. 244 |
| "Training Up Women and Children to the Business": Factory Work in the 1790s | p. 247 |
| "The Poor Widows Who Will Support Themselves": The Putting-Out System in New York, 1810 | p. 249 |
| "She Is Sober, Honest, Industrious": Describing the Ideal Domestic Servant | p. 251 |
| "I Guess, I Am a Woman Citizen": The Distinction between Servants and Help | p. 253 |
| "Resolve to Employ Women Only Whose Proper Business It Is": A Defense of Female Labor in the Tailoring Trade | p. 254 |
| "Women Are Very Inadequate": The Tailors Respond | p. 256 |
| "She Hopes for the Encouragement of Ladies in General": Mrs. Carney, A Woman Entrepreneur | p. 259 |
| "A Young Lady Just Out of Her Time": A Mantua-Maker Seeks Employment | p. 260 |
| "Everything in Her Power to Extricate Him from His Difficulties": Women Breadwinners | p. 261 |
| "Frowning Ill-Humor and Slovenly Neglect": The Bad Wife, an Example for Others | p. 264 |
| "Learn Them to Be Domestic": Raising Republican Women | p. 269 |
| "In the Practice of Receiving Men's Company": Wayward Girls of New York | p. 272 |
| "Where White and Black Persons of Evil Fame Resort": Catherine Akens Is Charged with Keeping a "Bawdy House" | p. 274 |
| "Well May They Read Sin in Their Punishment": Isabella Graham's Report to the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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