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SCRAPING BY: WAGE LABOR, SLAVERY, AND SURVIVAL IN EARLY By Seth Rockman *VG+*
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- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
- ISBN
- 9780801890062
- Publication Name
- Scraping by : Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series
- Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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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.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801890063
ISBN-13
9780801890062
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Scraping by : Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Ser.
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd8085.B33r63 2008
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Seth Rockman has written a book to be reckoned with... This is a terrific book, at times abrasive, which deserves a wide audience. That would include undergraduates, for whom Rockman's vivid writing and clear argument should resonate, especially within an economic climate that is forcing millions more to scrape by." -- John Bezís-Selfa, American Historical Review, "Scraping By is an impressive, eloquently written study that provides a seminal history of Baltimore's working class, and makes a fine addition to the already outstanding list of titles in the Studies in Early American Economy and Society series." -- Maryland Historical Magazine, Scraping By is about breaking new ground: the often nasty, unhealthy labor essential to Baltimore's growth as a boomtown from the 1790s to 1830s. Rockman breaks new ground himself in studying 'low-end laborers': slaves, free blacks, European immigrants, and the native-born who struggled to cobble together a few days' ill-paid toil... Highly recommended., Seth Rockman has written a powerful book... Scraping By is an ambitious, impressive, and fully realized piece of work that will engage and educate scholars, teachers, citizens, and activists. The book will take its place on the shelf beside the classics of early American labor history, written by Ira Berlin, William B. Morris, Gary B. Nash, Billy G. Smith, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Alfred F. Young., "Rockman began working on Scraping By well before the current economic downturn, yet the recent record-breaking rates of un- and under-employment make this analysis of American capitalism's development all the more timely. Rockman's skillful work, however, seems likely to outlast this stage of the business cycle... All historians of the era, as well as economic historians of every era, will want to read this fine book." -- Lynda Yankaskas, Common-Place, "This is an engaging, deeply researched, and well -- written study of labor, class, and capitalism in early national -- era Baltimore." -- Simon P. Newman, Journal of American History, "Scraping By is about breaking new ground: the often nasty, unhealthy labor essential to Baltimore's growth as a boomtown from the 1790s to 1830s. Rockman breaks new ground himself in studying 'low-end laborers': slaves, free blacks, European immigrants, and the native-born who struggled to cobble together a few days' ill-paid toil... Highly recommended." -- Choice, "Well researched, attentive to larger national and international contexts, and admirably written, this book is a commendable step forward in the writing of the history of U.S. labor." -- Susanna Delfino, Journal of Southern History, Scraping By is an impressive, eloquently written study that provides a seminal history of Baltimore's working class, and makes a fine addition to the already outstanding list of titles in the Studies in Early American Economy and Society series., Rockman began working on Scraping By well before the current economic downturn, yet the recent record-breaking rates of un- and under-employment make this analysis of American capitalism's development all the more timely. Rockman's skillful work, however, seems likely to outlast this stage of the business cycle... All historians of the era, as well as economic historians of every era, will want to read this fine book., Well researched, attentive to larger national and international contexts, and admirably written, this book is a commendable step forward in the writing of the history of U.S. labor., Seth Rockman has written a book to be reckoned with... This is a terrific book, at times abrasive, which deserves a wide audience. That would include undergraduates, for whom Rockman's vivid writing and clear argument should resonate, especially within an economic climate that is forcing millions more to scrape by., "Seth Rockman has written a powerful book... Scraping By is an ambitious, impressive, and fully realized piece of work that will engage and educate scholars, teachers, citizens, and activists. The book will take its place on the shelf beside the classics of early American labor history, written by Ira Berlin, William B. Morris, Gary B. Nash, Billy G. Smith, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Alfred F. Young." -- Marcus Rediker, William and Mary Quarterly
Table of Content
List of Figures and Tables Series Editor's Foreword Introduction 1. Coming to Work in the City 2. A Job for a Working Man 3. Dredging and Drudgery 4. A Job for a Working Woman 5. The Living Wage 6. The Hard Work of Being Poor 7. The Consequence of Failure 8. The Market's Grasp Conclusion Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Slavery, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Labor, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
2008-011847
Dewey Decimal
331.109752/7109034
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
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