Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. vii + 336. $20.00.

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3115032 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 276-277

Author(s):

Patrick E. McLear

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University

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Review Essay : Newer Directions in Mobility and Community StudiesROBERT DOHERTY, Society and Power: Five New England Towns 1800-1860. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. PETER R. DECKER, Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Harvard Studies in Urban History). Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1978. CLYDE GRIFFEN and SALLY GRIFFEN, Natives and Newcomers: 7he Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (Harvard Studies in Urban History). Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1978. GORDON W. KIRK, Jr. The Promise of American Life: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century Community, Holland, Michigan 1847-1894. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1978

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/009614428000700105 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 93-102

Author(s):

Richard J. Hopkins

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New England ◽

San Francisco ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Review Essay ◽

Urban History ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University ◽

American Philosophical Society ◽

University Of Massachusetts

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Fortunes and Failures: White Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 336. $20.00.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700092548 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 582-583

Author(s):

Roger D. Simon

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University

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Geoffrey Crossick, An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London 1840–1880. London, Croom Helm, 1978. 306 pp. £9.95. - Peter R. Decker, Fortunes and Failures, White-collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. 336 pp. £14. - Clyde and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers, The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. 291 pp. £12.95.

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926800004065 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 143-146

Author(s):

Lynn H. Lees

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University

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Peter R. Decker. Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. (Harvard Studies in Urban History.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1978. Pp. xii, 336. $20.00

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/84.2.563-a ◽

1979 ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

Urban History ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University

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Natives and Newcomers. The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie. By Clyde and Sally Griffen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi + 291); Fortunes and Failures, White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 336)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh/13.2.334 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 334-336

Author(s):

F. C. Jaher

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

White Collar ◽

Harvard University

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Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Journal of Interdisciplinary History ◽

10.2307/203657 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 565

Author(s):

Margo A. Conk ◽

Peter R. Decker

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

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Fortunes and failures. White-collar mobility in nineteenth-century San Francisco

Journal of Historical Geography ◽

10.1016/0305-7488(81)90139-0 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 206-208

Author(s):

Fred Matthews

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

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Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Western Historical Quarterly ◽

10.2307/967387 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 381

Author(s):

Roger W. Lotchin ◽

Peter R. Decker

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

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Peter R. Decker, Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth Century San Francisco (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978). Pp. xv, 336. - Clyde and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978, £12·95). Pp. xiii, 291.

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875800007775 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 477-478

Author(s):

Hugh Tulloch

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

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Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1855342 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 84 (2) ◽

pp. 563

Author(s):

Michael P. Weber ◽

Peter R. Decker

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

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