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Author Thernstrom, Stephan.

Title Poverty and progress : social mobility in a nineteenth century city / by Stephan Thernstrom
Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1964

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)
Series A Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies
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
Bibliography Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [241]-282) and index
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Subject 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Social history
Industries
City and town life
Social conditions
Social mobility
Stadt
Soziale Mobilität
SUBJECT Newburyport (Mass.) -- Social conditions
Subject Massachusetts -- Newburyport
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674044319
0674044312
0674695011
9780674695016