The other Bostonians : poverty and progress in the American metropolis, 1880-1970 / Stephan Thernstrom.

Main entry:

Thernstrom, Stephan.

Title & Author:

The other Bostonians : poverty and progress in the American metropolis, 1880-1970 / Stephan Thernstrom.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1973.

Description:

xvi, 345 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Harvard studies in urban history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Population growth, migration and turnover.--Differential migration and economic opportunity.--Occupational career patterns.--Social-class origins and occupational achievement.--Yankees and immigrants.--Protestants, Catholics and Jews.--Blacks and Whites.--The Boston case and the American pattern.
Bancroft Prize, 1974.

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ISBN:

0674644956
9780674644953
0674644964 ((pbk.))
9780674644960 ((pbk.))

Subject:

Social mobility United States.
Social classes United States.
Occupational mobility.
Career Mobility
Mobilité sociale États-Unis.
Classes sociales États-Unis.
Mobilité professionnelle.
Social classes.
Social conditions.
Social mobility.
Social mobility Massachusetts Boston History.
Poverty United States History.
Social classes Massachusetts Boston History.
Occupational mobility Massachusetts Boston History.
Boston (Mass.) Social conditions.
Boston (Massachusetts)
Boston (Mass.) Conditions sociales.
Massachusetts Boston.
United States.
Social structure

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Harvard studies in urban history.

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Copy: 1
Status: Available

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