tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post1527952321072330751..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Genealogy BlegBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-36457588339335932492014-01-30T15:09:20.464-08:002014-01-30T15:09:20.464-08:00Sean--yes, I think chain migration is a possibilit...Sean--yes, I think chain migration is a possibility here. And as you suggest, they are not mutually exclusive.<br /><br />Crank--ah, but you didn't have wifi.Bucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-73708035936247548942014-01-30T14:12:06.867-08:002014-01-30T14:12:06.867-08:00The truth of the matter is, jobs in general a half...The truth of the matter is, jobs in general a half century ago paid better than most jobs today – with the exception of top management jobs and bank and hedge fund work<br /><br />My father made $17,000 in each of his three best years as a liquor salesman. My mother was a substitute school teacher who taught only enough days a year (ten, I think) to keep her license.<br /><br />We , my parents, brother and I, lived in an air two-bedroom apartment that must have been about 2,000 square feet. My brother and I went to expensive private summer camps each summer. We also went to out-of-town private colleges and my brother toan out-of-town law school without ever borrowing a nickel or getting a nickel of scholarship money.<br /><br />When I graduated from college, entry-level jobs in advertising, even journalism – yes! journalism!- in New York were sufficient to rent a studio apartment on a high floor in a brand new building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, or in a charming Greenwich Village town house.<br /><br />Try that today, dude.<br /><br />We forget how poor we all become when a handful of guys at the top suck all the money out of the economy.<br /><br />Very crankily yours,<br />The New York CrannkThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-52735151496815004872014-01-30T08:32:13.612-08:002014-01-30T08:32:13.612-08:00Well there were skilled factory jobs. I had immigr...Well there were skilled factory jobs. I had immigrant relatives who held such jobs in Connecticut and Pittsburgh in the 19th century. The ironworks in Pittsburgh certainly recruited skilled workers in South Wales but there was also chain-migration. Having a skilled factory job wasn't incompatible with having gone to Rhode Island because you knew someone there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07007153208953102875noreply@blogger.com