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Fortunes and Failures : White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth Century San Francisco / Peter R. Decker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decker, Peter R., author.
- Series:
- Harvard Studies in Urban History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angestellter.
- Arbeitsmarkt.
- Merchants.
- Mobilität.
- Occupational mobility.
- Social mobility.
- Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
- White collar workers.
- Merchants--California--San Francisco--History.
- Occupational mobility--California--San Francisco--History.
- Social mobility--California--San Francisco--History.
- White collar workers--California--San Francisco--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Merchants--California--San Francisco--History.
- Occupational mobility--California--San Francisco--History.
- Social mobility--California--San Francisco--History.
- White collar workers--California--San Francisco--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.): 5 Ktn.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Fortunes and Failures".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- HARVARD STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- TABLES
- PART ONE THE PIONEER MERCHANTS
- 1 THE WESTWARD MIGRATION
- 2 THE 1850s
- 3 OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY
- 4 PROPERTY, CREDIT, AND PERSISTENCE
- 5 THE SOCIAL FABRIC
- PART TWO THE SECOND GENERATION
- 6 THE CIVIL WAR, RAILROADS, AND MANUFACTURING
- 7 A NEW MERCHANT GENERATION
- 8 A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
- 9 A VIEW TOWARD THE NOB
- 10 CONCLUSION
- APPENDIXES
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-33151-6
- OCLC:
- 1024009448
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