Background
Griffen, Clyde Chesterman was born on July 29, 1929 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Son of Clyde Rumbaugh and Rosanna Susan (Chesterman) Griffen.
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Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (Suny Series, an American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valle)
(Tells the story of Poughkeepsie's transformation from sma...)
Tells the story of Poughkeepsie's transformation from small city to urban region.
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Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (Harvard Studies in Urban History)
( This important contribution to the literature on mobil...)
This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. The book clarifies for the first time in any mobility study the meaning of shifts in employment through detailed examination of individual occupations. It shows concretely how industrialization altered the structure of opportunity; it specifies how the change affected the occupational niches and paths of mobility found by Irish, German, and British newcomers compared to white and black natives. By reassessing the significance of achieving particular occupations such as clerking and craft proprietorships, the book poses important questions for historical interpretations of gross indices of mobility such as shift from blue-collar to white-collar status. The authors favor comparability in their general analysis of mobility from federal census rolls and city directories, but they refine it through a broad research base, including tax rolls, local newspapers, and voluntary association records. Their study is one of the first to make systematic use of the credit reports on every business in one city from the R. G. Dun & Co. manuscripts. It also provides the first full description of the employment of women, permitting comparison with the opportunities for men. Other distinctive aspects include treatment of the crucial dimension of wealth and income, close attention to shifts in occupations produced by transformations in technology, marketing, and finance, and some disentangling of the influence of religion and nationality upon achievement. The fine lens of this microscopic study has enabled Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen to describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.
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Clyde Chesterman Griffen
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Clyde Chesterman Griffen, American history educator. National Science Foundation grantee, 1973-1974; National Humanities Institute fellow, 1976-1977; Fulbright research scholar New Zealand, 1984. Member American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Social Science History Association(editorial board 1976-1989).
Education
Bachelor, State University Iowa, 1952. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1960.
Career
Lecturer, Columbia University, New York City, 1954-1957; instructor history, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1957-1961; assistant professor, Vassar College, 1961-1967; associate professor, Vassar College, 1967-1975; Lucy Maynard Salmon professor American history, Vassar College, 1975-1992; department chairman history, Vassar College, 1982-1985; director American culture program, Vassar College, 1977-1979.
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Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (Harvard Studies in Urban History)
( This important contribution to the literature on mobil...)
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Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (Suny Series, an American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valle)
(Tells the story of Poughkeepsie's transformation from sma...)
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Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (Harvard Studies in Urban History)
Membership
Member American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Social Science History Association(editorial board 1976-1989).
Connections
Married Sarah Goldsborough Donoho, February 14, 1959. Children: John Winslow, Sarah Bolling, Robert Henry.
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Born
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Nationality
American
Education
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1952
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1953
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1960
Career
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1954 - 1957
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1957 - 1961
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National Science Foundation grantee, 1973-1974. National Humanities Institute fellow, 1976-1977. Fulbright research scholar New Zealand, 1984. New Zealand Forst Research fellow, 1996, 98.National Science Foundation grantee, 1973-1974. National Humanities Institute fellow, 1976-1977. Fulbright research scholar New Zealand, 1984.
New Zealand Forst Research fellow, 1996, 98.