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Common Labour : Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860
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Common Labour : Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860

Author(s): Way, Peter
Binding: Softcover
Volume Condition: As New
Dust Jacket: No
Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
Language: English
Publisher Name: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Place: Cambridge, UK
ISBN: 9780521102650
Book ID: 006497
Catalogue(s): History - The Americas
xviii, 304pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Traces another strand of the labour story, one where the absence of skill bred powerlessness that made common labour's engagement with capital markedly unequal.
Keywords:
American History Canals 18th century 19th century transport labouring classes working class

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