Late Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Living Standards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3377345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John F Mcclymer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 379 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204771 |
| OpenAlex | W2315970093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Late Nineteenth-Century American WorkingClass Living Standards If there is a leitmotif running through recent analyses of the immigrant and working-class experiences, it is the resiliency of cultural patterns and institutions. Unlike older interpretations which focused upon impersonal forces such as urbanization or industrialization, this new scholarship emphasizes the frequently creative ways in which ordinary people adjusted the demands of modern life. In our eagerness give immigrant and working-class families their due as historical actors, however, we run the risk of overestimating the control they were able exercise over their lives. As one recent student of ethnic history posed the issue, we need determine to what extent immigrants were makers and shapers of their lives, and what extent they were victims of circumstances beyond their control
Class (philosophy) · Economic history · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Standard of living · Working class · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2008 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |