Poverty and progress : social mobility in a nineteenth century city

Poverty and progress : social mobility in a nineteenth century city /

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Thernstrom, Stephan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1964
Series:Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies.
Subjects:
City and town life > United States > History > 19th century.
Social mobility > United States > History > 19th century.
Social history.
Social mobility > United States.
Industries > Massachusetts > Newburyport > History.
Social Conditions
social history.
Newburyport (Mass.) > Social conditions.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Laborer and community at mid-century
  • The problem of social control
  • The promise of mobility
  • The dimensions of occupational mobility
  • Property, savings, and status
  • The process of mobility
  • Laborer and community in 1880: Toward social stability
  • Newburyport and the larger society
  • Appendix: Further reflections on the Yankee City series: The pitfalls of ahistorical social science.

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