Social Structure and Social Mobility

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321927
• ISBN10: 0815321929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
The Social Configuration of the Antebellum City: An Historical and Theoretical Inquiry	p. 1
Urban Elite in the Far West: Portland, Oregon, 1870-1890	p. 41
Economic Inequality in Early Chicago, 1849-1850	p. 57
Rags to Riches Revisited: The Effect of City Size and Related Factors on the Recruitment of Business Leaders	p. 63
Trends in the Determinants Underlying the Process of Social Stratification: Boston, 1880-1920	p. 86
Harvard and the Boston Brahmins: A Study in Institutional and Class Development, 1800-1865	p. 106
Social Stratification in New York City Athletic Clubs, 1865-1915	p. 135
Economic Growth and Occupational Mobility in 19th Century Urban America: A Reappraisal	p. 154
Industrial Opportunity on the Urban Frontier: "Rags to Riches: and Milwaukee Clothing Manufacturers, 1840-1880	p. 179
Occupational Mobility and Nativity-Ethnicity in Indianapolis, 1850-60	p. 199
Mobility and Occupational Structure on the Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Frontier: The Case of Denver, Colorado	p. 217
The Chicago Business Elite: 1830-1930. A Collective Biography	p. 246
Socioeconomic Change in Racine, 1850-1880	p. 288
Blacks in Springfield, 1868-1880: A Mobility Study	p. 301
Local Migration Systems in Nineteenth-Century Iowa	p. 311
Untarnishing the Dream: Mobility, Opportunity, and Order in Modern America	p. 334
Migration and Jobs: The New Black Workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930	p. 357
Work and Restlessness: Occupational and Spatial Mobility among Mexicanos in Los Angeles, 1918-1928	p. 373
Changes in Workplace and Residential Locations	p. 398
Acknowledgments	p. 407
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