Men Is Cheap - Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

"Men Is Cheap shows how the concepts of military and domestic necessity were connected in white northerners' minds and clarifies what they thought the war was fought over. In the process of winning the war, white northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the northern state and northern employers emerge victorious"--

About the author

Brian P. Luskey is associate professor of history at West Virginia University and author of On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America.

Product details

• Authors: Brian P Luskey, Brian P. Luskey
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781469688381
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-8838-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology