Title Steelton : immigration and industrialization, 1870-1940 / John Bodnar

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 213 pages) : 2 illustrations Series Pittsburgh series in social and labor history Pittsburgh series in social and labor history. University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions PPiU University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections PPiU Contents The population of Steelton, 1880-1940 -- Male population over age eighteen, 1880-1900 -- Boarders in Steelton, 1880-1900 -- Household composition, 1880-1900 -- Persistence rates for newcomers, 1880-1925 -- Persistence rates for blacks, 1880-1925 -- Persistence rates for property owners, 1905-1925 -- Immigrant property owners, 1905-1915 -- Occupational distribution of the work force, 1880-1915 -- Occupational distribution of native-born whites, 1880-1915 -- Occupational distribution of immigrants, 1880-1915 -- Occupational distribution of blacks, 1880-1915 -- Wages in the Steelton plant, 1910 -- Net mobility rates, 1880-1925 -- Mobility rates of immigrants and blacks, 1880-1925 -- Marriages of Steelton males, 1920-1939 -- Intergenerational mobility of sons of unskilled workers, 1888-1905 -- Intergenerational mobility of sons of native whites, 1888-1905 -- Intergenerational mobility of sons of Slavs and Italians, 1920-1939 -- Occupational distribution of blacks, 1905-1939 -- Immigrants and blacks in unskilled and semiskilled jobs, 1905-1939 -- Persistence rates, 1930-1950 Summary This study examines the immigrants who flocked to Steelton in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, these immigrants formed the lower class of this Central Pennsylvania steel town Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Social classes -- Pennsylvania -- Steelton -- History Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Steelton -- History Minorities -- Employment -- Pennsylvania -- Steelton -- History Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Steelton -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- General. Immigrants Iron and steel workers Minorities -- Employment Social classes Social conditions SUBJECT Steelton (Pa.) -- Social conditions Subject Pennsylvania -- Steelton Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822975236 0822975238

Other Titles Immigration and industrialization

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