What explains why no viable workers' party or socialist movement emerged in late nineteenth-century America?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Farmers and industrial workers shared many goals, but they found it difficult to ally with each other.
2. Employers manipulated racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices among workers to keep them estranged.
3. Skilled workers distanced themselves from those who tended machines.
4. Many American workers aspired to own their own land or business.
5. High rates of geographic mobility also prevented workers from committing themselves to a particular union in a particular place.
6. Anti-union forces wielded considerable power.
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