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Author Polasky, Janet L.

Title Reforming urban labor [electronic resource] : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky.

Imprint Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Description xii, 238 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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 rehousing 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Urban policy -- Belgium -- Brussels -- History -- 19th century.
Urban policy -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Labor policy -- Belgium -- Brussels -- History -- 19th century.
Labor policy -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Working class -- Belgium -- Brussels -- History -- 19th century.
Working class -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Brussels (Belgium) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801447945 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801462405 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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