Book Review of Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
In antebellum Lynn, the society is marked by a hard working agrarian society who becomes industrialized as the emergence of factories spark society to conform. In Class of Community, Alan Dawley marks the growing in tension between elites and laborers as the industrialization causes mal-treatment and hostile working conditions felt throughout the entire society, resulting in a feud that could only be pacified by a diminish in elites control over factories.
At the beginning the workers both paternally and economically relied heavily on the master shoemaker, which they were content with but as the industrial revolution sparked, the resentment towards owners increased and those who worked realized that the machines held more importance than their own lives. The looming presence that Dawley portrays as factories industrialize agrarian societies parallel the culture that is attempted to be retained from towns such as Lynn. The strikes held by the workers caused in importance in revealing the unity of all races and sexes as everyone felt the effect of the mal treatment of workers and the compensation that they did not receive for their hard work. Groups such as the Knights of St. Crispin were formed to actively protest the unequal working conditions and labor devaluation. This would foreshadow an eventful mark in history that would take place as the Industrial Revolution sparked. Dominant agrarian societies would attempt to conform to a growing age but could not hold sanctuary conditions as the industrialization outgrew the city and its people. Its capital,its technology,and the bulk of its labor were all home-grown,and so its roots reach deep into the American economic subsoil.
Dawley portrays the emergence of the Republican Party to derive itself when the growing self-consciousness of Lynn manufacturers sought to reshape local government in order to promote their own class interests. Careers were given to...