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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780814753484
035 _a(DE-B1597)548427
035 _a(OCoLC)558991457
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072 7 _aHIS036040
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082 0 4 _a305.55
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLuskey, Brian P.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOn the Make :
_bClerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America /
_cBrian P. Luskey.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aAmerican History and Culture ;
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aClerks
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814753484
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