Reforming urban labor [electronic resource] : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky.
2010
HN510.B7 P65 2010eb
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Reforming urban labor [electronic resource] : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky.
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9780801447945 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801462405 (e-book)
9780801462405 (e-book)
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Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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English
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xii, 238 p. : ill.
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HN510.B7 P65 2010eb
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307.2/409421
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals
"Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers
"Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains
"Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs
"Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform
"With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families
"To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.
"Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers
"Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains
"Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs
"Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform
"With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families
"To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.