@article{1479875,
      recid = {1479875},
      author = {Luskey, Brian P., },
      title = {On the Make : Clerks and the Quest for Capital in  Nineteenth-Century America /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479875},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814752289.001.0001},
}