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Author:

Polasky, Janet L.

Title:

Reforming urban labor : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Urban policy--Brussels--Brussels--History--19th century.
Urban policy--London--London--History--19th century.
Labor policy--Brussels--Brussels--History--19th century.
Labor policy--London--London--History--19th century.
Working class--Brussels--Brussels--History--19th century.
Working class--London--London--History--19th century.
Brussels (Belgium)--Social conditions--19th century.
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals -- "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for housing urban workers -- "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains -- "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs -- "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.

ISBN:

0801447941 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801447945 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)475444643

LCCN:

2010022633

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)