Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City

Author/Contributor(s):	Sullivan, Mercer L
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/19/1989
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture...