![]() ![]() The first major attempt to control the workers through religious ideals was in 1828 with the creation of the Rochester Society for the Promotion of Temperance. The Masters wanted increased production and was hiring young men which they didn’t bother or just didn’t want to get to know. This became obvious when alcohol and self-control became a growing issue. This gave this working class to great there own “society” and the idea that the Master could control the worker was gone. Masters started hiring cheap and unskilled labor to increase profit and the entire bond that the Master and the Worker was broken. Johnson believes and proves that the people who created Rochester were networks of families, churches, and friends who worked together by helping each other towards their goals. Rochester changed in the way business was run at the turn of the 19th Century. Even though the revival wasn’t necessarily created to solve there problems the new rules on religion and lifestyle helped change the way people work and some could argue that it even changed we work today. While looking though many of the documents in Rochester he explained why the revivals even took place. Johnson explains the religious revival in Rochester, New York, when higher classes found themselves loosing control of there workers. ![]() “A Shopkeeper’s Millennium” Short SummaryĪ Shopkeeper’s Millennium by Paul E. ![]()
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