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The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

by Billy G. Smith

Pages: 249

Contributors: Billy G. Smith

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Place of Publication: Ithaca, NY

Publication Year: 1990

Subjects: Working Class--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th Century

Table of Contents

Title Page

The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Walking the Streets

Chapter Two: Deaths and Births in an Immigrant City

Chapter Three: Laboring People and the Urban Economy

Chapter Four: Material Conditions

Chapter Five: Careers

Chapter Six: Migration, Housing, and Poverty

Chapter Seven: Family Lives

Chapter Eight: Conclusion

Appendix A: Limited Prosopography

Appendix B: Demographic Conditions of Philadelphia

Appendix C: Occupational Structure of Philadelphia

Appendix D: Maritime Economy of Philadelphia

Appendix E: Distribution of Taxable Wealth in Philadelphia

Appendix F: Wages and Prices

Appendix G: Residential Segregation in Philadelphia

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