Labor in Akron, 1825-1945 by John A. Tully

Author:John A. Tully [Tully, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI)
ISBN: 9781629222004
Google: 1ChVzQEACAAJ
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: 2020-10-06T03:31:14+00:00

13.

Industrial Unionism Comes to Town

Frederick Engels predicted that the formation of class consciousness in America would be telescoped into a fraction of the time it had taken in Europe. On the old continent, it had taken many years for the working class to realize that it formed a distinct and permanent class in capitalist society, and longer for this realization to translate into independent class organizations. However, Engels believed that

[o]n the more favored soil of America, where no mediæval ruins bar the way, where history begins with the elements of modern bourgeois society as evolved in the seventeenth century, the working class passed through these two stages of its development within ten months.1

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