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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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