This article outlines and clarifies the complex relationship between economic development, the formation of classes, political movement responses to these changes, and state institutional capacity building in response to these movements in the Midwestern US. It seeks to remedy views of the transition to capitalism in America that focus too narrowly on a moment of transition, positing instead a long, politically contested process of class formation by elucidating the specific interactions between agrarian and union movements and state‐building processes. Our research reveals the substantial role of the state in forcing through acceptance of economic changes and shifting class locations through a co‐developmental process of political resistance movements and state‐building.

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经济转型，阶级形成和中西部的州长：1850-1900年

本文概述并阐明了经济发展，阶级的形成，政治运动对这些变化的反应以及国家机构对美国中西部这些运动的反应之间的复杂关系。它试图纠正对美国过渡到资本主义的观点，这些观点过于狭on地关注过渡时期，而是通过阐明农业和工会运动与国家建设过程之间的特定相互作用，提出了一个长期的，政治上有争议的阶级形成过程。我们的研究揭示了国家在接受经济变化和通过政治抵抗运动与国家建设的共同发展过程转变阶级位置的强迫中的重要作用。