Title "Getting paid" : youth crime and work in the inner city / Mercer L. Sullivan

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) Series Anthropology of contemporary issues Anthropology of contemporary issues. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Social Theory And Neighborhood Research -- 2. The Neighborhoods -- 3. Schooling -- 4. Employment -- 5. Getting Into Crime -- 6. Crime In La Barriada -- 7. Crime In Projectville -- 8. Crime In Hamilton Park -- 9. Empirical Comparison Of Crime Patterns -- 10. Youth Crime And Social Theory -- 11. Youth Crime And Social Policy -- Appendix: Procedures For Notifying Research Participants In The Neighborhood Study -- Bibliography -- Index Summary The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Richard Stott addresses these questions as he explores the social and economic dimensions of working-class culture. Working-class culture, Stott maintains, is grounded in the material environment, and when work, population, consumption, and the uses of urban space change as rapidly as they did in the mid-nineteenth century, culture will be transformed. Using workers' first-person accounts-letters, diaries, and reminiscences-as evidence, and focusing on such diverse topics as neighborhoods, diet, saloons, and dialect, he traces the rise of a new, youth-oriented working-class culture. By illuminating the everyday experiences of city workers, he shows that the culture emerging in the 1850s was a culture clearly different from that of native-born artisans of an earlier period and from that of the middle class as well Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd Subject Juvenile delinquency -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies Youth -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Juvenile delinquency Youth -- Employment Jugendkriminalität Fallstudiensammlung Délinquence juvénile -- Etats-Unis -- New York (N.Y.) -- Cas, études de. Jeunes en milieu urbain -- Travail -- États-Unis -- New York (N.Y.) -- Cas, Études de. Éducation surveillée. SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80040311 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn New York (N.Y.) -- District de Brooklyn. New York (N.Y.) Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501717697 1501717693

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