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Decker, Peter R.

Fortunes and Failures : White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco / Peter R. Decker. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (336 p.) : illustrations - Harvard Studies in Urban History ; 12 .

Frontmatter -- HARVARD STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- TABLES -- PART ONE THE PIONEER MERCHANTS -- 1 THE WESTWARD MIGRATION -- 2 THE 1850s -- 3 OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY -- 4 PROPERTY, CREDIT, AND PERSISTENCE -- 5 THE SOCIAL FABRIC -- PART TWO THE SECOND GENERATION -- 6 THE CIVIL WAR, RAILROADS, AND MANUFACTURING -- 7 A NEW MERCHANT GENERATION -- 8 A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE -- 9 A VIEW TOWARD THE NOB -- 10 CONCLUSION -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- INDEX

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674331501 9780674331518

Standard No.: 10.4159/harvard.9780674331518 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Angestellter.
Arbeitsmarkt.
Merchants.
Mobilität.
Mobilität.
Occupational mobility.
Social mobility.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
White collar workers.
Merchants -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Occupational mobility -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Social mobility -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
White collar workers -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
HISTORY / United States / General.

LC Class. No.: HF3163.S4

Dewey Class. No.: 301.44/45/0979461