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  <title><![CDATA[Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850]]></title>
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  <default_description>Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.</default_description>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who have read &quot;the age of jackson&quot;.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book functions well as an adjunct to the &quot;age of jackson&quot; by arthury schlesinger jr.  it basicaly handles the development of the &quot;working class&quot; in new york city between the end of the american revolution to the period before the civil war.<br/><br/>During this period the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6197495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent history of the evolution of American workers from hierachicized guild members to active adversaries of management--and the unfortunate ancillary rise of racism and ethnic strife. Also of the rise of Lincoln's Republican Party and the loss of cap-D Democracy to the South and the dark sid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36195598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good book if you don't count the implicit racism. (No really, there's some hopeful stuff about a moment of American commitment to labor unity. Except, you know, not for black people. Which Wilentz isn't particularly concerned about, or perhaps, doesn't even notice.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a neat book! It's heavy sloggin at times, but well worth the trouble.]]></body>
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