New Labor Issues

I might be out of subject but while I was researching to answer this question I found it interesting that how labor stories had impacts on literature, as the American labor problem novel begun to appear in 1879s, Working-class and class-sympathetic authors wrote a few predecessor stories—for example, a couple of Rebecca Harding Davis novels (1860s) about the degradation of factory life and an obscure novel by Martha Tyler (1855), A Book Without a Title, in which the first strike is depicted, one in which the author had participated (Blake 1972)—but the LPN subgenre did not have a real presence.

When LPN appeared between 1883 and 1888, America was experiencing an enormous surge into industrial capitalism, through this, new social classes transformed , and increasing shift from rural to urban society, by mid 1870s, industrial capitalists became dominant in the political economy, as industrial capital expanded , working class did too. Economic inequality increased in the process, and that is when the labor movement started to grow, and diversity became nationally oriented and formed around modern nations of class rooted in wage labor.

Cultural boundaries between labors and capital became increasingly pronounced and collective action in the labor movement field became much contentious and lethal. Series of major flashpoint of class struggle punctuated any semblance of gilded harmony, carry-over fears from the Paris Commune 1871 ; major economic slumps ad the growth of unemployed and tramps,(1871- 1874) the Tompkins Square Roit (1874) ; arrests of the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal field (1875) : the founding of the socialist workingman’s party(1876) :the national railroad strike turned general strike (1877)the strike turned general strike (1877) ; and so much more of known and unknowns strikes ,riots and rebellions. The central issue of that day was now the labor problem or labor question and this problem permeated general discourse and cultural media....