Natives and Newcomers The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie |
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| Author:
| Griffen, Clyde
Griffen, Sally |
| Series title: | Harvard Studies in Urban History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-41830-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes...
More DescriptionThis important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.