Poverty and Progress : Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City.
Title:
Poverty and Progress : Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City.
Author:
Thernstrom, Stephan.
ISBN:
9780674044319
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
PREFACE, 1987 -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Laborer and Community at Mid-Century -- 2. The Problem of Social Control -- 3. The Promise of Mobility -- 4. The Dimensions of Occupational Mobility -- 5. Property, Savings, and Status -- 6. The Process of Mobility -- 7. Laborer and Community In 1880: Toward Social Stability -- 8. Newburyport and the Larger Society -- Appendix -- Further Reflections on the Yankee City Series: The Pitfalls of Ahistorical Social Science -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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