working and living conditions of industrial workers to prove the need for labor reform. Urban crowding, long workdays, widespread disease, and other factors led workers to seek improvements. He presented numerous examples of strikes, rebellions, and riots to prove that class anger sometimes arose despite efforts to suppress resistance. Although he argued that these attempts at reform failed due to government intervention, many of these actions nevertheless resulted in gains for the working class. The anti-rent movement in the Hudson Valley began when sharecroppers refused to pay their rent and waged a guerrilla war with local police. They wanted to end patronage, a feud... middle of paper ... and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America, (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), 87.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 71-72.Zinn, People's History, 220.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 20, 63-63Ibid., 5, 29.Ibid., 28.Zinn, People's History, 218.Ibid. , 219.Cochran and Miller, Age of Enterprise, 39.Zinn, People's History, 233-237.Cochran and Miller, People's History, 117-118.Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge: Harvard UP , 2000), Kindle edition, chap. 1.Dawley, Class and Community, concl. Ibid., chap. 2. Zinn, People's History, 232. Dawley, Class and Community, chap. 2.Ibid., concl.Zinn, People's History, 232.Dawley, Class and Community, chap. 3.Zinn, People's History, 233.Ibid., conclusion.

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