Steelton : immigration and industrialization, 1870-1940 /

This study examines the immigrants who flocked to Steelton in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, these immigrants formed the lower class of this Central Pennsylvania steel town.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bodnar, John E., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
Colección:Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Temas:
Social classes > Pennsylvania > Steelton > History.
Immigrants > Pennsylvania > Steelton > History.
Minorities > Employment > Pennsylvania > Steelton > History.
Iron and steel workers > Pennsylvania > Steelton > History.
Classes sociales > Pennsylvanie > Steelton > Histoire.
Minorités > Travail > Pennsylvanie > Steelton > Histoire.
Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier > Pennsylvanie > Steelton > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > General.
Immigrants.
Iron and steel workers.
Minorities > Employment.
Social classes.
Social conditions
Steelton (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Pennsylvania > Steelton.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The population of Steelton, 1880-1940
  • Male population over age eighteen, 1880-1900
  • Boarders in Steelton, 1880-1900
  • Household composition, 1880-1900
  • Persistence rates for newcomers, 1880-1925
  • Persistence rates for blacks, 1880-1925
  • Persistence rates for property owners, 1905-1925
  • Immigrant property owners, 1905-1915
  • Occupational distribution of the work force, 1880-1915
  • Occupational distribution of native-born whites, 1880-1915
  • Occupational distribution of immigrants, 1880-1915
  • Occupational distribution of blacks, 1880-1915
  • Wages in the Steelton plant, 1910
  • Net mobility rates, 1880-1925
  • Mobility rates of immigrants and blacks, 1880-1925
  • Marriages of Steelton males, 1920-1939
  • Intergenerational mobility of sons of unskilled workers, 1888-1905
  • Intergenerational mobility of sons of native whites, 1888-1905
  • Intergenerational mobility of sons of Slavs and Italians, 1920-1939
  • Occupational distribution of blacks, 1905-1939
  • Immigrants and blacks in unskilled and semiskilled jobs, 1905-1939
  • Persistence rates, 1930-1950.

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