A Shopkeeper's Millenium, economic historian Paul Johnson uses data from the economic development of Rochester, New York, from its foundation in the late 18th century to the 1840s to illustrate how a couple of charismatic Protestant preachers helped the business elite exeert control over free labor. For the non-specialist, the book illustrates that veen without thinking about the first energy revolution (i.e., the changeover fro solar power to fossil-fuel power), there were social changes occurring in the United States that resulted in the physical separation of the workers from the workplace and the growth of two distinct social classes: merchant-owners, and proletarians/workers, and that the merchant-owners exerted "social contro" over the proletarians/workers through campaigns for church membership, "moral behavior," and temperance.

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