A few clarifications -- Industrialization and proletarianization -- The Jewish working class and immigration -- Russian industrialization and the size of the Jewish working class -- External and internal migration and its limits -- Overview of Jewish workers in various branches of production --...

This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational status of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature. It does this by using the 1/100 microdata sample from the 1850 Census of Population, the first census to ask occupation....