Polasky, Janet L.
Reforming urban labor routes to the city, roots in the country / [electronic resource] : Janet L. Polasky. - Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010. - xii, 238 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals -- "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers -- "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains -- "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs -- "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Urban policy--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Urban policy--History--England--London--19th century.
Labor policy--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Labor policy--History--England--London--19th century.
Working class--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Working class--History--England--London--19th century.
Brussels (Belgium)--Social conditions--19th century.
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.
Electronic books.
HN510.B7 / P65 2010eb
307.2/409421
Reforming urban labor routes to the city, roots in the country / [electronic resource] : Janet L. Polasky. - Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010. - xii, 238 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals -- "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers -- "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains -- "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs -- "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Urban policy--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Urban policy--History--England--London--19th century.
Labor policy--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Labor policy--History--England--London--19th century.
Working class--History--Belgium--Brussels--19th century.
Working class--History--England--London--19th century.
Brussels (Belgium)--Social conditions--19th century.
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.
Electronic books.
HN510.B7 / P65 2010eb
307.2/409421