Peter Way

Common Labour

Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780 1860

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Composed increasingly of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in hastily built shanty towns along the path of canal construction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102650
• ISBN-10: 0521102650
• Artikelnr.: 25854364

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Early canals 1780
1812; 2. 'As low as labour and capital can afford': the contracting system 1817
1840; 3. 'Human labour, physical and intelligent'; 4. Payment 'fit for labouring people'; 5. 'The greatest quantity of labour'; 6. 'Canawlers and citizens'; 7. 'Guerilla war': labour conflict in the 1830s; 8. 'This new order of things': the 1840s
1850s; Conclusion; Appendices; Index.