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Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
The Homeland and Capitalism 1 (56)
The Structure of Emigration 1 (22)
The Spread of Commercial Agriculture 23 (7)
The Decline of the Craftsmen 30 (4)
Population Expansion 34 (4)
The Adaptive Household 38 (5)
Familiarity with Moving 43 (2)
The Pragmatic Mind of Emigrants 45 (9)
Conclusion 54 (3)
Families Enter America 57 (28)
Networks of Migration 57 (14)
The Rise of the Family Economy 71 (12)
Conclusion 83 (2)
Workers, Unions, and Radicals 85 (32)
Imported Traditions of Work and Protest 85 (7)
Ethnic Diversity and American Unions 92 (12)
Immigrants and Socialism 104 (8)
The Immigrant Working Class and the 1930s 112 (3)
Conclusion 115 (2)
The Rise of an Immigrant Middle Class 117 (27)
Divided Communities 117 (3)
The Fraternal Movement and Early Enterprise 120 (11)
Immigrant Entrepreneurs 131 (7)
The New Middle Class 138 (4)
Conclusion 142 (2)
Church and Society 144 (25)
The Role of the Church 144 (6)
Class, Culture, and the Church 150 (6)
Competing Leaders 156 (11)
Conclusion 167 (2)
Immigrants and the Promise of American Life 169 (15)
Immigrants and Social Mobility 169 (6)
Passing Through the Ghetto 175 (5)
Immigrant Homeownership 180 (3)
Conclusion 183 (1)
America on Immigrant Terms 184 (22)
Folklife and the Quest for Meaning 184 (5)
Selective Schooling 189 (8)
Immigrant Politics 197 (8)
Conclusion 205 (1)
Conclusion: The Culture of Everyday Life 206 (11)
Appendix 217 (2)
Notes 219 (48)
Selected Bibliography 267 (20)
Index 287