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occupational mobility
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Malthus’s view of Poor Laws
- In Thomas Malthus: Malthusian theory
” These laws limited the mobility of labour, he said, and encouraged fecundity and should be abolished. For the most unfortunate it might be reasonable to establish workhouses—not “comfortable asylums” but places in which “fare should be hard” and “severe distress…find some alleviation.”
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study by Duncan
- In Otis Dudley Duncan
…the structure and development of work-related mobility patterns in the United States. It was the first national intergenerational survey to represent the influences of family background, education, race, region, size of community, and other factors on the occupational mobility of men. The book received the Sorokin Award of the American…
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