Labor history bibliography

Colonial/New Nation Alfred F. Young's article "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742 1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 38 (October 1981): 561 623, explores the private and public meanings of the American Revolution over the lifetime of one member of the working class. Although Hewes himself claimed social equality and full citizenship based on his participation in the Revolution, artists, intellectuals, and politicians would debate the contemporary meaning of the Revolu tion for other purposes. By the end of Hewes's life, the workingmen of Boston had lost the battle to claim the legacy of the Revolution.