Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City

by Stephan Thernstrom and Stephan Therstrom

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674695011

ISBN13:9780674695016

Release Date:October 1980

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

19th Century Americas Customs & Traditions England Europe History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Poverty Social Science

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