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]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:American History and Culture ; 1
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