Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

Men Is Cheap shows how the concepts of military and domestic necessity were connected in white northerners' minds and clarifies what they thought the war was fought over. In the process of winning the war, white northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the northern state and northern employers emerge victorious--

• | Author: Brian P. Luskey
• | Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: March 23, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1469654326
• | ISBN-13: 9781469654324