{"product_id":"journeymen-for-jesus","title":"Journeymen for Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. \u003ci\u003eJourneymen for Jesus \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. \u003ci\u003eJourneymen for Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, it adds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224050454872,"sku":"9780271017730","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271017730.jpg?v=1771328746","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/journeymen-for-jesus","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}