On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America

by Brian Luskey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814752284
• ISBN13: 9780814752289
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"