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

By: Polasky, Janet LContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010Description: xii, 238 p. : illISBN: 9780801462405 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.2/409421 LOC classification: HN510.B7 | P65 2010Online resources: Click to View
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.