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From Privileges to Rights - Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (Hardcover)
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From Privileges to Rights - Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
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From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of
tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of
subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican
and liberal order in eighteenth-century America. Tradesmen in New
Amsterdam occupied a distinct social position and, with varying
levels of success, secured privileges such as a reasonable reward
and the exclusion of strangers from their commerce. The struggle to
maintain these privileges figured in the transition to English rule
as well as Leisler's Rebellion. Using hitherto unexamined records
from the New York City Mayor's Court, Simon Middleton also
demonstrates that, rather than merely mastering skilled crafts in
workshops, artisans participated in whatever enterprises and
markets promised profits with a minimum of risk. Bakers, butchers,
and carpenters competed in a bustling urban economy knit together
by credit that connected their fortunes to the Atlantic trade. In
the early eighteenth century, political and legal changes
diminished earlier social distinctions and the grounds for
privileges, while an increasing reliance on slave labor stigmatized
menial toil. When an economic and a constitutional crisis prompted
the importation of radical English republican ideas, artisans were
recast artisans as virtuous male property owners whose consent was
essential for legitimate government. In this way, an artisanal
subject emerged that provided a constituency for the development of
a populist and egalitarian republican political culture in New York
City.
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