{"product_id":"on-the-make-1","title":"On the Make","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and \"counter jumpers\" discovered that claiming the identities of independent men—while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society—was fraught with uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\n In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from a rich array of archival materials, including clerks’ diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222627111256,"sku":"9780814752289","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-the-make-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}