Notes that beginning in the 1920s, when southern competition overwhelmed the textile mills, Fall River lost its industrial base and that the occupational progress of its newest immigrant groups, especially the Portuguese, was retarded. (Author/AM)

Reports the results of long interviews held by the authors with one hundred Boston working-class families representative of the various white ethnic groups in the population, and conducted for most part in 1970. (JM)

In the long march from manual training, the subject which today is called technology education has always had to contend with the question of its legitimacy as valid school knowledge. In this regard, it shares a similar history of struggle with other subjects whose initial entry into the curriculum was based on a utilitarian rather than an…