The "lower sort" : Philadelphia's laboring people, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith.

Main entry:

Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)

Title & Author:

The "lower sort" : Philadelphia's laboring people, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith.

Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.

Description:

xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- Walking the Streets -- Deaths and Births in an Immigrant City -- Laboring People and the Urban Economy -- Material Conditions -- Careers -- Migration, Housing, and Poverty -- 150 Family Lives -- Conclusion -- Limited Prosopography -- Demographic Conditions of Philadelphia -- Occupational Structure of Philadelphia -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F – Index.

Summary:

Recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801422426 (alk. paper)
9780801422423 (alk. paper)
0801481635 (pbk.)
9780801481635 (pbk.)

Subject:

Working class Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 18th century.
Travailleurs Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 18e siècle.
15.85 history of America.
Working class.
Unterschicht
Arbeiders.
Dagelijks leven.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 68099
Call No.: ID:91-B3592
Status: Available

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