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Scraping by : wage labor, slavery, and survival in early Baltimore / Seth Rockman.
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Scraping by : wage labor, slavery, and survival in early Baltimore / Seth Rockman.
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Scraping by : wage labor, slavery, and survival in early Baltimore / Seth Rockman.
- Format
- Book
- Language
- English
- Published/Created
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Description
- xii, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Availability
Available Online
Copies in the Library
Location | Call Number | Status | Location Service | Notes |
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Firestone Library - Stacks | HD8085.B33 R63 2009 Browse related items | Request |
Details
- Subject(s)
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- Labor—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- Wages—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- Slavery—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- Working class—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- African Americans—Employment—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- White people—Employment—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- Capitalism—Social aspects—Maryland—Baltimore—History—19th century [Browse]
- Baltimore (Md.)—Economic conditions—19th century [Browse]
- Baltimore (Md.)—Social conditions—19th century [Browse]
- Baltimore (Md.)—Race relations—History—19th century [Browse]
- Series
- Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia [More in this series]
- Bibliographic references
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-347) and index.
- Contents
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- Coming to work in the city
- A job for a working man
- Dredging and drudgery
- A job for a working woman
- The living wage
- The hard work of being poor
- The consequence of failure
- The market's grasp.
- ISBN
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- 9780801890062 (alk. paper)
- 0801890063 (alk. paper)
- 9780801890079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801890071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008011847
- OCLC
- 214322654
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