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Italian and Jewish Intergenerational Mobility: New York, 1910

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Suzanne W. Model
Suzanne W. Model*
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The Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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Although most Italian and Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States during the same turn-of-the-century period, the occupational trajectories of their descendants have been very different. Many writers have emphasized that Jews brought with them urban-industrial experience, entrepreneurial skills, a determination to settle in America, and a reverence for education (Joseph, 1969, orig. 1914; Glazer, 1958). Italians were more often peasants or farm laborers, though their familiarity with commerce and the crafts should not be underestimated (Briggs, 1978; Gabaccia, 1984). Some have also argued that familism and disdain for education further delayed Italian participation in the upgrading of the American occupational structure (Covello, 1972; Child, 1970).

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 31 - 48
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1988 

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