Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Laborer and community at mid-century
  • The problem of social control
  • The promise of mobility
  • The dimensions of occupational mobility
  • Property, savings, and status
  • The process of mobility
  • Laborer and community in 1880: Toward social stability
  • Newburyport and the larger society
  • Appendix: Further reflections on the Yankee City series: The pitfalls of ahistorical social science.