TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luskey,Brian P.
TI  - On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America 
T2  - American History and Culture
SN  - 9780814752289
AV  - HD8039.M4 U554 2016
U1  - 305.55 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Clerks
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814753484
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814753484/original
ER  -