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Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

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A provocative analysis of labor, social, and transportation history in our early national period. Journal of Southern History Extremely valuable... Well conceived, researched, and written. Journal of Social History Way's study of canal work and workers has filled a major empty spot in economic history. Journal of Economic History "A major addition to the study of North American canals, describing who dug them, how they were dug, and under what conditions of labor. American Canals

Common Labor

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 March 1997
      ISBN-13 9780801855221
      978-0801855221
      ISBN-10 0801855225

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

      Trade Review
      A provocative analysis of labor, social, and transportation history in our early national period. Journal of Southern History Extremely valuable... Well conceived, researched, and written. Journal of Social History Way's study of canal work and workers has filled a major empty spot in economic history. Journal of Economic History "A major addition to the study of North American canals, describing who dug them, how they were dug, and under what conditions of labor. American Canals

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