Abstract
One path toward an understanding of why the New York City economy grew faster than that of other large U.S. cities around the turn of the twentieth century runs through an analysis of the motivations and endowments of the City’s large populations of Southern Italian and East European Jewish immigrants.
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Notes
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The “New York City” statistic is for New York, Kings, Queens, and Richmond Counties. The count of the foreign-born and their offspring only included white people. The first place County was St. Louis County, Minnesota (Duluth).
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This statistic was 50.0 for Hillsborough County, NH. The statistic for Essex County, MA, on Boston’s North Shore exceeded the combined statistic for New York, Kings, Queens, and Richmond Counties, NY, in the third decimal place.
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The “northern” compartimenti were Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, and Emilia Romagna. The “southern” are Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, and Sicily.
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Currency conversions based on .28, 1.51, and 7.32 grams of gold per lira, dollar, and pound, respectively.
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Those deemed to have been “engaged in printing and publishing” included “bookbinders and finishers” and “printers” in 1870 and “semiskilled operatives, printing and publishing,” and “compositors, linotypers, and typesetters” in 1910.
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Gurwitz, A. (2019). Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed. In: Atlantic Metropolis. Palgrave Studies in American Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13352-8_11
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