The various ethnic labor groups shared the fiery toil that yielded the early republic capitalism as it progressed to completely depriving the people from their economic security. Rockman clearly states the argument that our capitalist political economy currently succeeds, and or thrives, on labor for prosperity “At bottom, all these workers lived and worked within a broader system that treated human labor as a commodity readily deployed in the service of private wealth and national economic development” (Rockman, pg 4). Rockman’s main acknowledgment was to build his aspiring work in order to give voice to those who …show more content…
Domestic servants, seamstresses, mud machinists, mariners, whether black or white, were often disciplined for lacking in the menial labor, but to berate them a lacking industry was of a different approach. Rockman explains the hidden and often ignored struggles of the laborer standpoint, “The process of finding a job, keeping a job, and transforming wages into subsistence was work in and of itself” (Rockman, pg 193), which exemplifies his main objective in revealing how thousands of laborers worked to build a name for themselves but ultimately scraped