Author: Sidney GoldsteinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816337
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A method for measuring migration and occupational mobility in the community.
Patterns of Mobility, 1910-1950
Author: Sidney GoldsteinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816337
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A method for measuring migration and occupational mobility in the community.
Manpower Research
Author: Manpower Research Bulletin
Author: Poverty and Progress
Author: Stephan ThernstromPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674695016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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. 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.
Migration, Population Structure, And Redistribution Policies
Author: Calvin GoldscheiderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429715560
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book analyses the links between migration and the composition, structure, and geographic distribution of populations. It discusses the evolution of population redistribution policies in Brazil, and examines internal migration between the 1930s and the 1980s.
The City: The city in global context
Author: Michael PacionePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415252706
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
For Bread with Butter
Author: Ewa MorawskaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Christopher Tomlins offers here a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. Dr Tomlins shows how public policy has been shaped to confine labour's role in the American economy, and that many of the unions' problems stem from the laws which purport to protect them.
The Literacy Myth
Author: Harvey J. GraffPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412837668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.
Building European Society
Author: Andrew MilesPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719034992
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited
Author: Kevin R CoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317360745
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This collection of papers, originally published in 1981, reviews and evaluates past and possible future advances in a field of central importance to human geography: behavioral geography. The book includes critical studies which show how the approach has contributed substantially to work within four areas of amjor application in behavioral geography: urban travel behavior, environmental cognition, residential mobility and spatial diffusion. The final section of the book focuses on the shortcomings of the behavioral approach and considers the alternative modes of analysis available.