"Getting paid" : youth crime and work in the inner city /

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the...

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Main Author: Sullivan, Mercer L., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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