The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880
by Billy Gordon Smith
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This book 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.Tags
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- Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.5 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by social and economic levels
- LCC
- HD8085 .P53 .S65 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By region or country
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- English
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