Reforming urban labor [electronic resource] : routes to the city, roots in the country / Janet L. Polasky.
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TextPublication details: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 238 p. : illSubject(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 century
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- HN510.B7 P65 2010
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.