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Reforming urban labor：routes to the city, roots in the country

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Main Authors: Polasky Janet L
Published: Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca, N.Y.
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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
Carrier Form: xii, 238 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780801447945 (hbk.)
0801447941 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: D750
CLC: D750.32-09
Call Number: D750.32-09/P762
Contents: 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 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.

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