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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American History and Culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Is My Prospects?
- 2 The Humble Laborer in the White Collar
- 3 Homo Counter-Jumperii
- 4 Striving for Citizenship
- 5 The Republic of Broadcloth
- 6 The Swedish Nightingale and the Peeping Tom
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author