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Philadelphia : work, space, family, and group experience in the nineteenth/century : essays toward an interdisciplinary history of the city / edited by Theodore Hershberg.
Title & Author:

Philadelphia : work, space, family, and group experience in the nineteenth/century : essays toward an interdisciplinary history of the city / edited by Theodore Hershberg.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.

Description:

xviii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Essays based on data compiled by the Philadelphia Social History Project.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-502) and index.
Introduction : The new urban history : toward an interdisciplinary history of the city / Theodore Hershberg -- I. Work -- Manufacture and productivity : the making of an industrial base, Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Bruce Laurie and Mark Schmitz -- Immigrants and industry : the Philadelphia experience, 1850-1880 / Bruce Laurie, Theodore Hershberg, George Alter -- II. Space -- The "journey-to-work" : an empirical investigation of work, residence and transportation, Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Theodore Hershberg [and others] -- Immigrants and residential mobility : the Irish and Germans in Philadelphia, 1850-1880 / Alan N. Burstein -- Industrial location and ethnic residential patterns in an industrializing city : Philadelphia, 1880 / Stephanie W. Greenberg -- III. Family -- Poverty, economic stress, and the family in a late nineteenth-century American city : whites in Philadelphia, 1880 / Michael R. Haines -- Family strategies and the family economy in the late nineteenth century : the role of secondary workers / Claudia Goldin -- Social change and transitions to adulthood in historical perspective / John Modell, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Theodore Hershberg -- IV. Group experience -- The Irish countryman urbanized : a comparative perspective on the famine migration / John Modell, Lynn H. Lees -- Free Blacks in antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg -- Mulattoes and Blacks : intragroup color differences and social stratification in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Theodore Hershberg, Henry Williams -- The origins of the female-headed Black family: the impact of the urban experience / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Theodore Hershberg, John Modell -- V. Urban as process and history and policy -- A tale of three cities : Blacks, immigrants, and opportunity in Philadelphia, 1850-1880,1930,1970 / Theodore Hershberg [and others] -- Epilogue : Sustaining interdisciplinary research.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
ISBN:

0195027523
9780195027525
0195027531 (pbk.)
9780195027532 (pbk.)

Subject:

Economic history.
Population.
Social conditions
Sociale geschiedenis.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Economic conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Population History 19th century.
Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) Conditions sociales.
Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) Conditions économiques.
Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) Population Histoire 19e siècle.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Hershberg, Theodore.
Philadelphia Social History Project.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 94749
Call No.: ID GDER; ID:85-B14179
Status: Available

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