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.

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

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

In their history of man and his work, the authors have told the story of work, how man has conceived of it, organized it, and reacted to it from pre-historic ti