Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bronzetown
It is well established at the present time that most groups coming to the city from rural and Old World backgrounds enter the city's economic life at the bottom, residing during the initial phase in the slum areas where a more or less fixed tradition favorable to delinquency is encountered. However, without exception white im migrant groups have experienced a subsequent rise in status as they acquired the knowledge, skills, and capital necessary for successful competition in the broader arena of the city. The career of white ethnic immigrants thus includes, typically, a later phase in which they move out of the slum areas to become absorbed in the general mass of middle class society, losing in the process the distinctive traits of their origin. This phase of the typical group career is further marked by asharp decline in the rates of delinquents among their children. On the basis of these facts, nothing, it would appear, is more calculated to reduce a group's rate of delinquents than ample opportunity for upward mobility into a more favorable status.
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