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Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Published in Paperback by Transaction Pub (2003)
Author: James M. O'Kane
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Organized Crime=Social Mobility
Professor James O'Kane allows the reader to understand the importance of organized crime in American culture. As you read, you will gain an understanding for how organized crime has contributed to the social mobility of different poor and working class immigrants who came to America searching for a better life...No group of immigrants has neglected this path as an alternative...While the face of organized crime has changed the goal has always been the same, to achieve social mobility; to move from the slums of NYC, Chicago and SanFransico to the rolling hills of suburbia. This book will not disappoint...

Organized crime is as American as "Apple Pie"
Professor James O'Kane allows the reader to understand the importance of organized crime in American culture. As you read, you will gain an understanding for how organized crime has contributed to the social mobility of different poor and working class immigrants who came to America searching for a better life...No group of immigrants has neglected this path as an alternative...While the face of organized crime has changed the goal has always been the same, to achieve social mobility; to move from the slums of NYC, Chicago and SanFransico to the rolling hills of suburbia. This book will not disappoint...

Pamplona : a sociological analysis of migration and urban adaptation patterns
Published in Unknown Binding by University Press of America ()
Author: James M. O'Kane
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