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US Labor Movement (6813 words) |
 | In the republican vision, the nation would be comprised of independent citizens united by their commitment toward preserving liberty for all. |
| The new labor historians found the republican critique of capitalism everywhere in the nineteenth century: in the workingmen's movements of the antebellum years, in the labor and populist agitation of the 1880s and 1890s, and even in the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party of the early twentieth century. |
| Labor republicanism could and did sustain collective visions of escape from wage labor, visions in which workers were imagined to be pooling their resources to free themselves from their employers and establish cooperatively owned and operated industries. |
| Citizen Soldiers | A History of National Service (4903 words) |
| The citizen soldier was to be the mainstay of national defense. |
| One was a concern for a citizen army based on universal military training (UMT) and the other a desire to create a trained citizen officer who could be rapidly mobilized in the event of war. |
| The mood of the movement was captured in its advertising slogan: "Give your vacation to your country and still have the best vacation you ever had." The Plattsburg movement represented an effort to spark a moral reawakening in America by promoting participation in national service at elite levels. |
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