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Note 3: Contemporaries often used the term "Workies" as a nickname for those who most embodied the values of the WMP.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Agrarian movements in New York, demonstrations of "Workies," but nothing was said by those engaged in them of that great leveller, brandy, though its properties are probably better known to them than those of water.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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So far for the "Workies;" and now for Miss Wright.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Within the context of the Flour Riot, historians alternatively portray the Loco Focos as political opportunists, class-conscious labor radicals, or plebeian street thugs in order to connect the death of the mass trade union movement of the mid-1830s with the onset of the Panic of 1837.4 Sean Wilentz notes that the Loco Foco Party (LFP) "updated the Owenite 'Workies' radicalism," with its anti-aristocratic positions, but ultimately was more of a political posture than a real labor movement because of its "problematic" relationship with trade unionism. 5 Leo Hershkowitz conversely argues that the "Loco-Focos were economic, rather than political or philosophical, radicals" because of their anti-monopoly and anti-bank principles. 6
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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This analysis is not concerned with determining whether any of the three factions embodied an "authentic" and "radical" Working Men's (or Workies ') agenda. 3 Second, this discussion shows that the WMP movement developed through specific gendered terms, demonstrating how issues of household-based masculine identity came to the forefront of this political endeavor.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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The promise of relief from the pressure and obligations of parental support probably intrigued many Workies, but at the end of the day, it did not reflect their attitudes toward their roles as fathers.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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An example from Goodell's paper comes from the article, "Two Sorts of Workies," which recounted the story of a man returning upstate from a visit to New York City.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Men from almost every occupational category in the city considered themselves Workies: the label did not reflect or imply a particular type of employment or skill. back
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Two main factors enabled Cook's men to take control of the WMP in New York City: support from religious temperance reformers and support from upstate Workies, most notably Albany's Working Men's Party.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Most Workies supported the idea of creating an equal society through education, but they had no desire to give up their children to the prerogative of the state to achieve educational reform.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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