Provides an overview of the various occupations men, women, and children held in nineteenth-century America.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Fulfillment can never result from work-related productivity and financial success alone."--BOOK JACKET.

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in an

p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American