Chapter Seven Working-Class Wages, Earnings, and the Organization of Urban Work

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One Plebeian City: Late Colonial Buenos Aires 17
6. Chapter Two The Structures of a Working Life: Masculinity, Sociability, Skill, and Honor 51
7. Chapter Three Remembered Scripts and Atlantic Colonial Realities: The Shoemakers and Silversmiths of Buenos Aires 85
8. Chapter Four Collective Obligations, Self-Interest, and Race: The Guilds of Silversmiths and Shoemakers Fail 117
9. Chapter Five The “French Conspiracy” of 1795 149
10. Chapter Six The Reproduction of Working-Class Life: Needing, Wanting, Having, and Saving 179
11. Chapter Seven Working-Class Wages, Earnings, and the Organization of Urban Work 215
12. Chapter Eight An Empire Lost: The Plebe Transformed 249
13. Epilogue 283
14. Notes 297
15. Bibliography 367
16. Index 391