Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Polasky, Janet L.

Title Reforming urban labor : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
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
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Labor policy
Social conditions
Urban policy
Working class
SUBJECT Brussels (Belgium) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject Belgium -- Brussels
England -- London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801462405
0801462401