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Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Seth Rockman
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| #84422 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2009 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.94 x6.00l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Great Polemic. Capitalism is Slavery.|By RDD|Seth Rockman’s Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore examines the economics of the working class in early republic Baltimore. The book speaks to economic history, social history, labor history, the history of the South, and gender history. Rockman wants to know what life was like for the average pe|||"Graceful, engaging work." -- History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive
|"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
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 m...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) | Seth Rockman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
