| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States. By Jonathan A. Glickstein. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. xii, 361 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8139-2115-5.)

The simultaneous growth in the numbers of chattel slaves and of people dependent for a livelihood on employment for wages in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century provoked widespread literary discussion about the meaning and prospects of free labor. Jonathan A. Glickstein scrutinized the resulting controversies in Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America (1991). While he focused that book on minute examination of the ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent in various writers' treatment of manual labor, he promised to devote a future volume to the ways in which diverse literary champions of the concept of free labor dealt with such issues as work incentives, slavery, pauperism, economic competition, and social mobility. True to his word, Glickstein has examined those questions in minute detail in the book under review.

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