Richard B. Stott
Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City.
Cornell University Press, 1990. First edition. 0801420679 xiv/300 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket exhibits very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"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. Richard B. Stott discusses the ways in which the influx of this large group of young adults affected the city's working class. What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Stott addresses these questions as he explores the social and economic dimensions of working-class culture."