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Leader LDR cam a 00
Control # 1 89042890
Date 5 20191030092005.0
Fixed Data 8 890317s1990 nyua b 00110 eng
LC Card 10    $a 89042890
ISBN 20    $a0801420679 (alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a87496$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dGCG
Geog. Area 43    $an-us-ny
LC Call 50 00 $aHD8085.N53$bS76 1990
Dewey Class 82 00 $a305.5/62/09747109034$220
ME:Pers Name 100 $aStott, Richard Briggs.
Title 245 10 $aWorkers in the metropolis :$bclass, ethnicity, and youth in antebellum New York City /$cRichard B. Stott.
Imprint 260    $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1990.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axiv, 300 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references.
Abstract 520    $a"In this splendid addition to immigration history, Stott details the remaking of New York City's working class during the antebellum period.... Through quantitative methods and the personal reminiscences of the immigrants themselves, the author demonstrates how and why the working class, dominated by native-born artisan republicans in the 1820s, became one of less-skilled immigrant men and women by the 1850s. After discussing common workplace experiences, age, motives for immigration, and consumption patterns of these new workers, Stott analyses the working-class cultural institutions that developed from those sources. The male-dominated world of the boardinghouse, "stand-up" saloon, and volunteer fire company are vividly evoked, while the separation of the male and female immigrant working-class world is noted and explained.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended as a Choice Outstanding Title
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorking class$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aForeign workers$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century.