The "Lower Sort"
Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800
Published on 24. April 1990
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-8014-2242-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-2242-3 (9780801422423)
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Content
Introduction
1. Walking the Streets
2. Deaths and Births in an Immigrant City
3. Laboring People and the Urban Economy
4. Material Conditions
5. Careers
6. Migration, Housing, and Poverty
7. Family Lives
8. ConclusionAppendixes
A. Limited Prosopography
B. Demographic Conditions of Philadelphia
C. Occupational Structure of Philadelphia
D. Maritime Economy of Philadelphia
E. Distribution of Taxable Wealth in Philadelphia
F. Wages and Prices
G. Residential Segregation in PhiladelphiaIndex
1. Walking the Streets
2. Deaths and Births in an Immigrant City
3. Laboring People and the Urban Economy
4. Material Conditions
5. Careers
6. Migration, Housing, and Poverty
7. Family Lives
8. ConclusionAppendixes
A. Limited Prosopography
B. Demographic Conditions of Philadelphia
C. Occupational Structure of Philadelphia
D. Maritime Economy of Philadelphia
E. Distribution of Taxable Wealth in Philadelphia
F. Wages and Prices
G. Residential Segregation in PhiladelphiaIndex