Item Detail
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17416
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English
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European Immigration to America's Great Basin, 1850-1870
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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2004
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34
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no.4
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569-594
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Tracks the occupational mobility of British Mormons who immigrated to the Great Basin, specifically to Utah, during 1850-70. The consequences of moving from a more diverse to a less diverse economy meant that immigrants from white-collar occupations moved into positions of lower status initially. As economic conditions became more robust, they reentered higher-status occupations. Unskilled immigrant laborers who worked in agriculture in the New World gained in economic status.