Abstract
Nineteenth-century European immigrants bound for America's Great Basin evinced considerable variation in occupational mobility. White-collar and skilled workers frequently abandoned their European human capital to work in agriculture, and European planters remained farmers. Unskilled laborers who entered agriculture in the Great Basin, however, experienced substantial up-ward occupational mobility from their original economic status.
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© 2004 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2004
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