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JOURNEYMEN FOR JESUS
EVANGELICAL ARTISANS CONFRONT CAPITALISM IN JACKSONIAN BALTIMORE |
| By: |
William R. Sutton |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0271017732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780271017730 |
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| Publisher: |
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 August, 1998 |
| Series: |
Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern Literature |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Synopsis: |
A study of skilled artisans in the 1820s and 1830s whose evangelical faith raised suspicions toward capitalist innovations. When industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. Journeymen for Jesus explores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. Baltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. Historians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. Journeymen for Jesus presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, itadds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America. |
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US |
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Pennsylvania State University Press |
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