Reforming urban labor
Subtitle: routes to the city, roots in the country
By: Janet L. Polasky
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780801447945
Subjects: Labor policy; Social conditions; Working class; Urban policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals; title: "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for housing urban workers; title: "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains; title: "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs; title: "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform; title: "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families; title: "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.