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Canada and the United States



William R. Sutton. Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 351. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.50.

In this thought-provoking study, William R. Sutton challenges arguments that evangelicalism was a conservative force muting the potential radicalism and militance of artisans. Rather, he asserts, many artisans were attracted to evangelicalism, particularly after the Second Great Awakening, and evangelical leaders of a radical Protestant Methodist persuasion were active in the strikes and riots of the 1830s. 1
     Sutton argues that the tradition of producerism was an outlook that emphasized pride in work, recognition of responsibility to fellow workers, employers, and the community, and "living and working without being dependent on the power and authority of others." It included the right to a just and livable wage, cooperative control of work, and opposition to monopoly. This classical republican position was in opposition to nineteenth-century liberalism that emphasized individualism and the laws of the market, dislocations being inevitable in capitalist development. . . .


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