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The Spirit of 1848 Mike Thomas Some of these never beforeImmigrants and their children became the chief component of the U. S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social transformation, focusing on German born craft workers and the key roles they played in the economic and political life of the wage earning population of antebellum America. Interweaving themes often treated separately immigration, industrialization, class formation, and the political