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Common labour: workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860
Peter Way
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Frontmatter
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Tables (page ix)
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Acknowledgements (page xi)
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Chronology of construction for main canals (page xiii)
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Abbreviations (page xv)
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Map: Main canals of the North American Canal Era, 1780-1860 (page xvii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Early canals, 1780-1812 (page 18)
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2 "As low as labor and capital can afford": the contracting system, 1817- 1840 (page 47)
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3 "Human labor, physical and intelligent" (page 76)
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4 Payment "fit for labouring people" (page 105)
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5 "The greatest quantity of labour" (page 131)
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6 "Canawlers and citizens" (page 163)
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7 "Guerilla war": labour conflict in the 1830s (page 200)
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8 "This new order of things": the 1840s- 1850s (page 229)
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Conclusion (page 265 )
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Appendix 1: Tables 1-16 (page 275 )
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APPENDIX 2: TABLES I7-18 (page 287 )
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Index (page 301 )
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JEH | 55.2 (Jun. 1995): 439-440 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199506%2955%3A2%3C439%3ACLWATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N |
JSH | 61.2 (May 1995): 366-367 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28199505%2961%3A2%3C366%3ACLWATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 |
JAH | 81.4 (Mar. 1995): 1689-1690 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199503%2981%3A4%3C1689%3ACLWATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X |
WMQ | 3.52.1 (Jan. 1995): 220-222 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199501%293%3A52%3A1%3C220%3ACLWATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 |
AHR | 102.3 (Jun. 1997): 926-927 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199706%29102%3A3%3C926%3ACLWATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 |
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Published: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521440332 (hardcover)
- 9780511098574 (ebook)
- 9780521102650 (paper)