Philadelphia : work, space, family, and group experience in the nineteenth century : essays toward an interdisciplinary history of the city / edited by Theodore Hershberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hershberg, Theodore.

Philadelphia Social History Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Population--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xviii, 525 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.

Contents:

Introduction : The new urban history : toward an interdisciplinary history of the city / Theodore Hershberg

I. Work

Manufacture and productivity : the making of an industrial base, Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Bruce Laurie and Mark Schmitz

Immigrants and industry : the Philadelphia experience, 1850-1880 / Bruce Laurie, Theodore Hershberg, George Alter

II. Space

The "journey-to-work" : an empirical investigation of work, residence and transportation, Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Theodore Hershberg [and others]

Immigrants and residential mobility : the Irish and Germans in Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Alan N. Burstein

Industrial location and ethnic residential patterns in an industrializing city : Philadelphia, 1880 / Stephanie W. Greenberg

III. Family

Poverty, economic stress, and the family in a late nineteenth-century American city : whites in Philadelphia, 1880 / Michael R. Haines

Family strategies and the family economy in the late nineteenth century : the role of secondary workers / Claudia Goldin

Social change and transitions to adulthood in historical perspective / John Modell, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Theodore Hershberg

IV. Group experience

The Irish countryman urbanized : a comparative perspective on the famine migration / John Modell, Lynn H. Lees

Free Blacks in antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg

Mulattoes and Blacks : intragroup color differences and social stratification in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Theodore Hershberg, Henry Williams

The origins of the female-headed Black family: the impact of the urban experience / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Theodore Hershberg, John Modell

V. Urban as process and history and policy

A tale of three cities : Blacks, immigrants, and opportunity in Philadelphia, 1850-1880,1930,1970 / Theodore Hershberg [and others]

Epilogue : Sustaining interdisciplinary research.

Notes:

Essays based on data compiled by the Philadelphia Social History Project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Sheldon Hackney gift copy inscribed to him by the author.

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0195027523

0195027531

OCLC:

6042821