AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements
The financial support of several organisations is gratefully acknowledged:
- ESRC for research grant RES-000-22-2420 Migration, Economic Opportunity and the Railroads:
Movement of Heavy Industrial Workers in the North-East USA 1850-1900
- The predecessor to the ESRC - the Social Science Research Council - for PhD. funding
in the distant past, since data from that project has been utilised here
- The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, for funding a Local History Grant
through the Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton, PA. This project is contributing
detailed information on mining occupations to the present study
- The University of Portsmouth provided research funds to support data entry from the
Baltimore City directory for 1860
Further assistance was provided by the following:
- Professor William G. Thomas, Department of History and the students, staff, faculty, and directors
at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, all at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
who originally provided the raw digitised data file for the Baltimore and Ohio RR 1857 payroll
from which a substantial number of railroad job titles were drawn