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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thernstrom, Stephan.

Contributor:

Joint Center for Urban Studies.

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social mobility--United States.

Social mobility.

Newburyport (Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1964.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Poverty and Progress".

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

9780674044319

0674044312

OCLC:

923110490