Social Change in an Industrial Town: Patterns of Progress in Warren, Pennsylvania, from Civil War to World War I

by Michael P. Weber

Using quantitative as well as verbal data, this book examines the social and geographic mobility of unskilled, semiskilled and skilled workers during the oil boom years of the 1870s and 1880s and the more stable 1890s and 1900s in an industrial town or northwestern Pennsylvania. Also analyzed are the differing rates of mobility or various ethnocultural groups living within the community. A hamlet in 1813, Warren was a lumber center briefly in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271012013
• ISBN13: 9780271012018
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"