Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century CityHarvard University Press, 1964 - 286 sider Embedded 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. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
LABORER AND COMMUNITY AT MIDCENTURY | 9 |
THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL CONTROL | 33 |
THE PROMISE OF MOBILITY | 57 |
THE DIMENSIONS OF OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY | 80 |
PROPERTY SAVINGS AND STATUS | 115 |
THE PROCESS OF MOBILITY | 138 |
LABORER AND COMMUNITY IN 1880 TOWARD SOCIAL STABILITY | 166 |
NEWBURYPORT AND THE LARGER SOCIETY | 192 |
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE YANKEE CITY SERIES THE PITFALLS OF AHISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE | 225 |
NOTES | 241 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 287 |
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