What would be your argument to ask or demand a higher wage, particularly if you are a nonunionized employee, and how would you compare your line of reasoning to the line of reasoning of the “average” wageworker in Antebellum America?

Cite references from two different primary sources only from the list below.

Primary Sources List: (Must cite references from two of these different sources!)

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5792

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6537

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5801

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6222

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6762

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6230

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6232

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6383

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6380

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6520

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5831

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6622

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6218

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6376

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5839

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714

Assignment Instructions:

Your Commentary must have a minimum length of 200 words. Incorporate the authors and/or truncated titles of your two selected primary source documents into your Commentary. Remember, your Commentary is NOT a review, rephrasing, or regurgitation of the selected primary sources but your attempt to find the underlying or “hidden” or “behind the scene” meaning of the two primary source documents. In other words, what is the moral of the story?

Question:

What would be your argument to ask or demand a higher wage, particularly if you are a nonunionized employee, and how would you compare your line of reasoning to the line of reasoning of the “average” wageworker in Antebellum America?