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On the Make

On the Make

On the Make
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On the Make Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Luskey, Brian,

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  • Title On the Make
  • Author Luskey, Brian,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 287
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York University Press
  • Publication date 2011-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12703374
  • ISBN 9780814753101 / 0814753108
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (22.10 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Economic
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.556
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

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.

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