Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Memorial of the Citizens of Baltimore to the Mayor and City Council, in relation to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road. (Statement of the receipts and disbursements of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company.).
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Author: Memorial of the Citizens of Baltimore to the Mayor and City Council, in Relation to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Author: A Calendar of Legislative Petitions
Author: Virginia State Library. Archives DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Memorial of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in Favor of a Further Subscription of Stock to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Communication from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Author: Jonathan KnightPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Scraping By
Author: Seth RockmanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Co-winner, 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University and the Labor and Working-Class History AssociationWinner, 2010 H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined the economic opportunities and vulnerabilities of working families in the early republic. In the era of Frederick Douglass, Baltimore's distinctive economy featured many slaves who earned wages and white workers who performed backbreaking labor. By focusing his study on this boomtown, Rockman reassesses the roles of race and region and rewrites the history of class and capitalism in the United States during this time. Rockman describes the material experiences of low-wage workers—how they found work, translated labor into food, fuel, and rent, and navigated underground economies and social welfare systems. He also explores what happened if they failed to find work or lost their jobs. Rockman argues that the American working class emerged from the everyday struggles of these low-wage workers. Their labor was indispensable to the early republic’s market revolution, and it was central to the transformation of the United States into the wealthiest society in the Western world. Rockman’s research includes construction site payrolls, employment advertisements, almshouse records, court petitions, and the nation’s first “living wage” campaign. These rich accounts of day laborers and domestic servants illuminate the history of early republic capitalism and its consequences for working families.