On the Make / American History and Culture Bd.1 (ePub)
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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 menwhile making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban societywas 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.
- Autor: Brian P. Luskey
- 2010, Englisch
- Verlag: Severn House
- ISBN-10: 0814752543
- ISBN-13: 9780814752548
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2010
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