Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) James Pula George Thomas

George Thomas

urban and rural

Ringspun tee

had its way with the town

Filled with historical and contemporary photos

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) James Pula George Thomasby Brian P. Luskey When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that Men is cheep here to Day, he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Unions war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called intelligence offices,