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Mercer L. Sullivan - Getting Paid - 9780801495984 - V9780801495984
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Getting Paid

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Description for Getting Paid Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKVQ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.

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 city's working class? What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Richard Stott addresses these questions as he explores the social and economic dimensions of working-class culture. Working-class culture, Stott maintains, is grounded in the material environment, and when work, population, consumption, and the uses of urban space change as rapidly as they did in the mid-nineteenth century, culture will be transformed. Using workers' first-person accounts—letters, diaries, and reminiscences—as evidence, and focusing on such diverse topics as neighborhoods, diet, saloons, and dialect, he traces the rise of a new, youth-oriented working-class culture. By illuminating the everyday experiences of city workers, he shows that the culture emerging in the 1850s was a culture clearly different from that of native-born artisans of an earlier period and from that of the middle class as well.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801495984
SKU
V9780801495984
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About Mercer L. Sullivan
Richard B. Stott is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

Reviews for Getting Paid
"This is one of the most important works I have read on working-class life. It will be widely read, praised, and debated."
Elliott J. Gorn, Miami University

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