Success or Failure in the City? Social Mobility and Rural-Urban Migration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Groningen, the Netherlands

This article studies the relation between rural-urban migration and the upward and downward social mobility of different social groups from the perspective of the sending countryside and not of the receiving city. It utilizes two datasets regarding people born in the Groningen clay soil region (the...

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Main Authors: Richard Paping, Jacek Pawlowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Instititute of Social History 2018-02-01
Series:Historical Life Course Studies
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2018-0004?locatt=view:master