Brian P Luskey: 1 book
On the Make
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 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...
