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Steelton : immigration and industrialization, 1870-1940 / John Bodnar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodnar, John E., 1944- author.
- Series:
- Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
- Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History
- Standardized Title:
- Immigration and industrialization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Pennsylvania--Steelton--History.
- Social classes.
- Immigrants--Pennsylvania--Steelton--History.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--Employment--Pennsylvania--Steelton--History.
- Minorities.
- Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania--Steelton--History.
- Iron and steel workers.
- Steelton (Pa.)--Social conditions.
- Steelton (Pa.).
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822975236
- 0822975238
- OCLC:
- 1150920611
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