Title: The clerk's tale
Description: Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth century America, where many of them found work as clerks. This work recounts their story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era.
Subjects: History, Intellectual life, Literacy, Middle class, Self-culture, Social aspects of Literacy, Social conditions, Social life and customs, United States, Young men, United states, history, 19th century, United states, social conditions, United states, social life and customs, Literacy, history, Middle class, united states, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century