Degree Year
1975
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Advisor(s)
Geoffrey Blodgett
Committee Member(s)
Stephen Cutler
David Rankin
Keywords
San Francisco, California, Nineteenth century, Mobility, United States
Abstract
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.
Repository Citation
Dodd, Jill Siegel, "Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890" (1975). Honors Papers. 738.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/738
