Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xii
5. CHAPTER ONE. Labor, Ideology, and the State: Working-Class Formation in the United States 1
6. CHAPTER TWO. Judicial Regulation of Labor: The Common Law Doctrine of Criminal Conspiracy, 1806—1896 30
7. CHAPTER THREE. The Producers’ Vision: A Republican Political Economy 76
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Disintegration of the Producers' Alliance and Politicization of Judicial Regulation, 1865-1896 112
9. CHAPTER FIVE. The United States in Comparative Perspective: English Labor and the Courts 180
10. CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: Ideas, Interests, and the Concept of Class 204
11. APPENDIX A: American Labor Conspiracy Cases 217
12. APPENDIX B: Additional Cases 219
13. Bibliography 221
14. Index 257