Brian P Luskey

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On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century AmericaHardcover, 1 January 2010

On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
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Part of Series
American History and Culture
Print Length
287 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
1 Jan 2010
ISBN-10
0814752284
ISBN-13
9780814752289

Description

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 a rich array of archival materials, including clerks' diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era.

Product Details

Author:
Brian P Luskey
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 January 2010
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
0814752284
ISBN-13:
9780814752289
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
287
Weight:
498.95 gm

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