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Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
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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 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.

Author Biography:

Brian P. Luskey is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University.
Release date Australia
December 1st, 2011
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
287
Dimensions
3895x5830x20
ISBN-13
9780814753101
Product ID
10844878

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