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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1978
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Harvard Studies in Urban History ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (291 p.)
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