On the Make : : Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America / / Brian P. Luskey.
In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of ind...
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