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9%OFFBrian P. Luskey - On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America - 9780814753101 - V9780814753101
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On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America

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Description for On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America Paperback. Argues that an understanding of clerks and clerking makes sense of the culture of capitalism in 19th Century America Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.

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 independent men—while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society—was fraught with uncertainty.
In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
American History and Culture Series
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814753101
SKU
V9780814753101
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About Brian P. Luskey
Brian P. Luskey is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University.

Reviews for On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
On the Make is essential reading not only for the history of clerks, but as well for the history of manhood, urban life, and class development in antebellum America.
Sharon Ann Murphy
The Historian
In this fascinating portrait of American striving, Luskey locates the origins of white-collar culture in the precarious world of the antebellum clerk. Luskeys ... Read more

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