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

Summary

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...

Product details

• Authors: Mercer L. Sullivan
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.1990
• EAN: 9780801423703
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2370-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary I; Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Anthropology of Contemporary I
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology