Check out a book entitled Shopkeeper's Millennium by Paul Johnson.

Johnson covers the deskilling of artisans and the emergence of the putting out system, small factories, and commercialization in upstate New York. He links two waves within the Great Awakening directly to changes in the economy. The first had to do with the emerging middle class and the second had to do with including the working class into the religious movements. Since wage labor and venture capitalists destroyed the traditional social order, religious movements hoped to create a new social fabric. The first wave was designed to lead by example. The second wave was designed to force the working class into the modern class ideal by controlling government or by only hiring fellow church members and temperance association members. While not as direct as the New Left historians, Johnson does see the second wave of the Second Great Awakening as somewhat coercive, however, he points out that many working class people voluntarily flocked to religion in order to secure employment