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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polasky, Janet L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy--Belgium--Brussels--History--19th century.

Urban policy.

Urban policy--England--London--History--19th century.

Labor policy--Belgium--Brussels--History--19th century.

Labor policy.

Labor policy--England--London--History--19th century.

Working class--Belgium--Brussels--History--19th century.

Working class.

Working class--England--London--History--19th century.

History.

Brussels (Belgium)--Social conditions--19th century.

Brussels (Belgium).

London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

London (England).

England--London.

Belgium--Brussels.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801447945

0801447941

OCLC:

475444643