The Norristown Study

Foreword -Thomas C. Cochran Preface List of Maps and Tables 1. THE NORRISTOWN STUDY 2. THE NORRISTOWN COMMUNITY 3. SOURCES OF DATA 4. THE NORRISTOWN HOUSEHOLD SURVEY 5. STUDIES OF POPULATION Patterns of Migration and Occupational Mobility -Sidney Goldstein Changes in the Journey to Work -Sidney Goldstein Some Factors in Intergenerational Occupational Mobility -William Dorfman Changing Patterns of Fertility, 1920-1950 -Sidney Goldstein Differential Fertility in Norristown, 1952 -Anne S. Lee 6. STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF CHANGE ON THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE Patterns of Business Growth and Survival -Sidney Goldstein and Kurt Mayer The Small City Industrialist, 1900-1950 -James H. Soltow History of the Labor Movement in Norristown, 1900-1950 -William L. Calderhead 7. STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF CHANGE ON THE INDIVIDUAL WORKER Technological Change and its Effects in Selected Industries of Norristown -Harold I. Sharhn The Hosiery Looper in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Family Occupational Processes and Adaptation to Factory and Community Change, 1900-1950 -George H. Huganir, Jr. Industrial Relocation of Displaced Male Factory Workers: Some Sociological Implications -Michael Lalli Attitudes Toward Work in an Industrial Community -Gladys L. Palmer 8. STUDIES OF ACCULTURATION AND OF COMMUNICATION Residential and Occupational Mobility as Indices of the Acculturation of Italians in Norristown, 1900-1950 -Francis A. J. lanni The Catholics in Norristown -Lawrence J, Cross, S.J. Acculturation among the Jews of Norristown -Simon D. Messing Mass Communication, 1900-1950 -Robert C. Toole 9. OTHER STUDIES 10. SUMMARY AND EVALUATION APPENDICES A. Household Schedule, Personal Schedule, Evaluation Sheet B. Theses, Papers, and Publications, Completed or in Preparation under the Sponsorship of the Norristown Seminar C. Publicity Releases of the Norristown Study INDEX