Poverty and progress
Subtitle: social mobility in a nineteenth century city
Series: A Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University; Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Social mobility; Histoire; Social conditions; Stadt; Soziale Mobilität; Mobilité sociale; Social Conditions; Industrie; City and town life; History
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [241]-282).
Table of contents: title: Laborer and community at mid-century; title: The problem of social control; title: The promise of mobility; title: The dimensions of occupational mobility; title: Property, savings, and status; title: The process of mobility; title: Laborer and community in 1880: Toward social stability; title: Newburyport and the larger society; title: Appendix: Further reflections on the Yankee City series: The pitfalls of ahistorical social science