Dear Gretchen

This is a subset of the larger issue of how to find out about the cutlrula and 
social history of the "inarticulate", especially working classes. For the 
temperance question, most work looking at mass movements has dealt with cases 
that cross class lines, and include both working-class and middle-class people. 
A key case of this in American history, where artisans and factory workers 
joined in temperance societies in the 1840s, but these were not usually 
exclusively working-class societies, because the working-class was in a process  
of formation froom preindusrtrial conditions.  In addition to what Robin and 
others have stated,  My book Sobering Up discuses this; see also Ruth M. 
Alexander, "'We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters': Class and Domesticity in the 
Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850," Journal of American History 75 
(December 1988), 763-785

Regards,

Ian Tyrrell
 Quoting Gretchen Pierce <[log in to unmask]>:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> As some of you might know, I'm writing my dissertation on the 
> anti-alcohol campaign in Mexico in the 1920s and 30s.  I'm examining it 
> on the national, state, and local levels.  I have found lots of great 
> comparative literature, but I've found that most people talk about 
> temperance movements from above (either from the point of view of 
> governments or of upper/middle class reformers).  Can anyone point me 
> to a body of literature from any region, any time period, that looks at 
> popular temperance movements?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gretchen Pierce
> Adjunct Instructor
> Indiana University Northwest
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of Arizona
>