Social Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Hartmut Kaelble
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 200
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Author: Hartmut Kaelble
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephan THERNSTROM
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0674044312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmbedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country's history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community--Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The "blocked mobility" theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous "Yankee City" studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the "Yankee City" volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.
Author: Michael P. Weber
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 9780882730639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan C. Boyle
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert George Gutman
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David B. Grusky
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florian R. Hertel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 3658147857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility prospects turned to the worse in both countries. In light of these findings, the book develops a narrative account of historical socio-political developments that are likely to have driven the basic resemblances across countries but also account for the initial decline and the more recent increase in intergenerational inequality.
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 113560438X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Author: Hartmut Kaelble
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780709915058
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