On the Make : Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America / Brian P. Luskey.
2010
HD8039.M4 U554 2016
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On the Make : Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America / Brian P. Luskey.
Author
Luskey, Brian P., author.
ISBN
9780814753484
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814752289.001.0001 doi
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HD8039.M4 U554 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.55
Summary
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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American History and Culture ; ; 1
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is My Prospects?
2 The Humble Laborer in the White Collar
3 Homo Counter-Jumperii
4 Striving for Citizenship
5 The Republic of Broadcloth
6 The Swedish Nightingale and the Peeping Tom
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is My Prospects?
2 The Humble Laborer in the White Collar
3 Homo Counter-Jumperii
4 Striving for Citizenship
5 The Republic of Broadcloth
6 The Swedish Nightingale and the Peeping Tom
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author