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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963411003321

Autore

Thernstrom Stephan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 1964

ISBN

9780674044319

0674044312

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)

Collana

A Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Soggetti

Social mobility - United States

Newburyport (Mass.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p.[241]-282).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE, 1987 -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. LABORER AND COMMUNITY AT MID-CENTURY -- 2. THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL CON -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

No detailed description available for "Poverty and Progress".