Workers in the metropolis : class, ethnicity, and youth in antebellum New York City /
The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1990.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv412w7 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Metropolis and Working-Class History
- 1. The City
- 2. A Short History of the Trades of New York
- 3. The People
- 4. The Labor Market and the Family Economy
- 5. The Workplace
- 6. Consumption
- 7. Working-Class Neighborhoods
- 8. Working-Class Institutions
- 9. Culture
- Appendixes
- Index