LEADER 03266nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910780975403321 005 20230725041606.0 010 $a0-8147-5254-3 010 $a0-8147-5348-5 010 $a1-4416-3665-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814753484 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007945 035 $a(EBL)865671 035 $a(OCoLC)779828174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341096 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226716 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341096 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388830 035 $a(PQKB)11283626 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865671 035 $a(OCoLC)859670287 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4858 035 $a(DE-B1597)548427 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814753484 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865671 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10356702 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007945 100 $a20090710d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn the make$b[electronic resource] $eclerks and the quest for capital in nineteenth-century America /$fBrian P. Luskey 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-5310-8 311 $a0-8147-5228-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 What Is My Prospects? -- $t2 The Humble Laborer in the White Collar -- $t3 Homo Counter-Jumperii -- $t4 Striving for Citizenship -- $t5 The Republic of Broadcloth -- $t6 The Swedish Nightingale and the Peeping Tom -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aIn the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent men?while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society?was fraught with uncertainty. In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from a rich array of archival materials, including clerks? diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era. 410 0$aAmerican history and culture. 606 $aClerks$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xCommerce$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aClerks$xHistory 676 $a305.5/56 700 $aLuskey$b Brian P$01562915 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780975403321 996 $aOn the make$93830926 997 $aUNINA