Twenty Years of Progress 1967-1987
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Page : 6 pages
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Release : 2000
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Page : 6 pages
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Release : 2000
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787149803
Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of “progress”?
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Kano State (Nigeria)
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Author : California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program)
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fisheries
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Release : 1967
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Author : Stephan Thernstrom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674695016
Embedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country’s history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community—Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The “blocked mobility” theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous “Yankee City” studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the “Yankee City” volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.
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Page : 406 pages
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Release : 1971
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0444634851
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry provides a review of eclectic developments in medicinal chemistry. This volume includes chapters covering recent advances in cancer therapeutics, fluorine in medicinal chemistry, a perspective on the next generation of antibacterial agents derived by manipulation of natural products, a new era for Chagas Disease drug discovery? and imaging in drug development. - Extended timely reviews of topics in medicinal chemistry - Targets and technologies relevant to the discovery of tomorrow's drugs - Analyses of successful drug discovery programmes
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Page : 1872 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Medicine
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