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On the Make

Autor Brian P. Luskey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2010
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814752289
ISBN-10: 0814752284
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 20 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: NYU Press - IPS
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

"In this fascinating portrait of American striving, Luskey locates the origins of white-collar culture in the precarious world of the antebellum clerk. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope and eloquent in the telling, On the Make is a valuable addition to the growing list of books that illuminate the cultural and social history of American business.” Timothy Spears, author of Chicago Dreaming

Notă biografică

Brian P. Luskey is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University.

Descriere

Argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in a pivotal era