working and living conditions of industrial workers to demonstrate the need for labor reform. Overcrowding in cities, long workdays, the spread of disease, and other factors led workers to seek improvements. He presented numerous examples of strikes, rebellions, and riots to demonstrate that class anger sometimes emerged despite efforts to quell resistance. Although he argued that these reform attempts had failed due to government intervention, many of these actions produced some benefits for the working class. The anti-rent movement in the Hudson Valley began when tenant farmers refused to pay rent and fought a guerrilla war with local police. They wanted to end patronage, a feud... middle of paper... and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America, (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), 87.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 71-72.Zinn, People's History, 220.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 20, 63-63Ibid., 5, 29.Ibid., 28.Zinn, People's History, 218.Ibid., 219.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 39.Zinn, People's History, 233-237.Cochran and Miller, People's History, 117-118.Alan Dawley, Class and Community : The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000), Kindle edition, ch. 1.Dawley, Class and community, concl.Ibid., chap. 2.Zinn, Popular History, 232.Dawley, Class and Community, ch. 2.Ibid., concl.Zinn, People's History, 232.Dawley, Class and Community, chap. 3.Zinn, Popular History, 233.Ibid., concl.

Topic > working and living conditions of industrial workers to demonstrate the need for labor reform. Overcrowding in cities, long workdays, the spread of disease, and other factors led workers to seek improvements. He presented numerous examples of strikes, rebellions, and riots to demonstrate that class anger sometimes emerged despite efforts to quell resistance. Although he argued that these reform attempts had failed due to government intervention, many of these actions produced some benefits for the working class. The anti-rent movement in the Hudson Valley began when tenant farmers refused to pay rent and fought a guerrilla war with local police. They wanted to end patronage, a feud... middle of paper... and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America, (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), 87.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 71-72.Zinn, People's History, 220.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 20, 63-63Ibid., 5, 29.Ibid., 28.Zinn, People's History, 218.Ibid., 219.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 39.Zinn, People's History, 233-237.Cochran and Miller, People's History, 117-118.Alan Dawley, Class and Community : The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000), Kindle edition, ch. 1.Dawley, Class and community, concl.Ibid., chap. 2.Zinn, Popular History, 232.Dawley, Class and Community, ch. 2.Ibid., concl.Zinn, People's History, 232.Dawley, Class and Community, chap. 3.Zinn, Popular History, 233.Ibid., concl.