Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890

This study will focus on social mobility in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The question I want to answer is, does the quantitative evidence available support the contention that nineteenth century America was a land in which a man was free to rise as far as his talents could carry him? More specifically, I will closely examine a representative sample of 1009 San Francisco, residents. I gathered this sample from the Federal manuscript census of 1870, and then traced its members through San Francisco's city directories through 1890. In this way, I have sought to uncover meaningful patterns of geographic and occupational mobility.

Name thesis:degree_name

BA

Level thesis:degree_level

bachelors

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor dc:publisher

Oberlin College Honors Theses

Year dc:date

1975

Author dc:creator

• Dodd, Jill Siegel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Blodgett, Geoffrey

• Sociology
• American History
• Economic History
• San Francisco
• California
• nineteenth century
• mobility
• United States

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1363705248

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:oberlin1363705248