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 |