Natives and Newcomers : : The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie / / Clyde Griffen, Sally Griffen.
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 t...
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