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- catalog abstract ""The Mythology of nineteenth-century American economic exceptionalism trumpeted the positive work incentives prevailing in a society of scarce labor, weak class barriers, and abundant opportunity. This ideology agreed with the optimistic vein of political economy, in which high wages went hand in hand with increased productivity. What, then, was the supposed role of poverty, the fear of poverty, and other negative work incentives in the era of early industrial capitalism and escalating sectional conflict over slavery? American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety examines a wide spectrum of antebellum American thought on these and related issues, including slavery and cheap immigrant and female sweated labor."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12581946.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions To 1865.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The Mythology of nineteenth-century American economic exceptionalism trumpeted the positive work incentives prevailing in a society of scarce labor, weak class barriers, and abundant opportunity. This ideology agreed with the optimistic vein of political economy, in which high wages went hand in hand with increased productivity. What, then, was the supposed role of poverty, the fear of poverty, and other negative work incentives in the era of early industrial capitalism and escalating sectional conflict over slavery? American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety examines a wide spectrum of antebellum American thought on these and related issues, including slavery and cheap immigrant and female sweated labor."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-346) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The world's dirty work and the wages that sweeten it -- Pressures from below : chattel slavery, and the ideological construction of free-market labor incentives -- "Buy cheap, sell dear" -- Further social constructions of the market mechanisms, economic justice, and competitive hierarchy -- George M. Weston and slave labor : free labor, Gresham's Law, and antebellum cultural anxieties -- Convict labor, free labor, and Gresham's Law -- The "pauper labor" of the old world, free labor, and Gresham's Law -- Some elaborations and conclusions.".
- catalog extent "x, 361 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813921155 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Northeastern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions To 1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "331/.0973/09034 21".
- catalog subject "Capitalism Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Competition United States States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Exceptionalism United States.".
- catalog subject "HD8070 .G578 2002".
- catalog subject "Labor Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor economics United States States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Southern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Social classes Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Subsistence economy Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Wages Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Work ethic Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Working poor Northeastern States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The world's dirty work and the wages that sweeten it -- Pressures from below : chattel slavery, and the ideological construction of free-market labor incentives -- "Buy cheap, sell dear" -- Further social constructions of the market mechanisms, economic justice, and competitive hierarchy -- George M. Weston and slave labor : free labor, Gresham's Law, and antebellum cultural anxieties -- Convict labor, free labor, and Gresham's Law -- The "pauper labor" of the old world, free labor, and Gresham's Law -- Some elaborations and conclusions.".
- catalog title "American exceptionalism, American anxiety : wages, competition, and degraded labor in the Antebellum United States / Jonathan A. Glickstein.".
- catalog type "text".