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Wage Kates in Philadelphia, 1790-1830
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2011
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate more thoroughly the experience of the urban and agricultural wage earner during the first four decades of American history by focusing on one major city and its environs. While the majority of Americans were engaged in independent agricultural pursuits during this period, the proportion of wage earners to total population was much greater in urban areas. Artisans, laborers, domestics, and mariners were among the largest of wage-earning groups.
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- Obstacles to Economic Growth: Papers presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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