Common Labour : Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860
Author(s):
Way, Peter
| Binding: | Softcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | As New |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Publication Place: | Cambridge, UK |
| ISBN: | 9780521102650 |
| SKU: | 006497 |
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| Categories: | History - The Americas |
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History - The Americas
xviii, 304pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Traces another strand of the labour story, one where the absence of skill bred powerlessness that made common labour's engagement with capital markedly unequal.
Keywords:
American History
Canals
18th Century
19th Century
Transport
Labouring Classes
Working Class
