A Shopkeeper's Millennium “A Shopkeeper's Millennium” was written by Paul. E. Johnson. This book showed us the social, economic and political structure developed in Rochester and also told us how did it affect by the revivals in the early to the mid 19th century. Johnson does this by looking through many documents from the city of Rochester and explained why the revivals even took place. This book uses an interested and well-founded micro perspective to analyze Rochester, New York during the Market Revolution. Firstly, Johnson discusses the society change in Rochester and its social ramifications. He conserves the developed dichotomy and tensions during the master and wage earner. “Rochester retained the economic functions and much of the look and feel of a country town.” (Johnson, p37). Because the Merchants and masters lost control, they began to employ in free market system. Therefore, there were many journey shoemakers, Master and foreman. However, there …show more content…
It also say “37 percent of journeymen headed their own household.” (Johnson, p46) This meant boarding are large. During this period, no neighborhoods in 1820, different neighborhoods with economic sectors developed by 1827. “By 1834 the social geography of Rochester was class-specific: master and wage earner no longer lived in the same households or on the same blocks.” (Johnson, p53). It separated the masters were concerned with the others. In addition, the author talks about the Politics. Johnson discusses the division caused by masonry and undercut by lower classes. All of those men proposed resorting to a boycott for those that abused the Sabbath. Those groups could stop boat owners since around loch. Both Tappan and Beecher advocated for the abolition of mail and post on Sundays. Unfocused on workingmen ended up splitting the elites and gave workingmen in which their enemies