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Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860 Paperback - 1997
by Peter Way
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Composed increasingly of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in hastily built shanty towns along the path of canal construction.
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- Title Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860
- Author Peter Way
- Binding Paperback
- Edition REP
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Date 1997-01-30
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780801855221 / 0801855225
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.12 x 0.68 in (22.81 x 15.54 x 1.73 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Library of Congress subjects Canal construction workers - North America -, Canals - North America - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96043255
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.129
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