"Getting Paid": Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City

by Sullivan Ml and Mercer L. Sullivan

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Richard Stott addresses these questions as he explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801423708
• ISBN13: 9780801423703
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher