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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Original Edition: Literacy and History -- 1 The Moral Bases of Literacy: Society, Economy, and Social Order -- I: LITERACY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CITY -- 2 Illiterates and Literates in Urban Society: The Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 3 Persistence, Mobility, and Literacy -- 4 The Children of the Illiterate- Education, Work, and Mobility -- II: LITERACY AND SOCIETY -- 5 Literacy, Jobs, and Industrialization -- 6 Literacy and Criminality -- 7 Literacy: Quantity and Quality -- Appendix A: Sources for the Historical Study of Literacy in North America and Europe -- Appendix B: Literacy and the Census -- Appendix C: Classification of Occupations -- Appendix D: Illiterates: Occupations, 1861 -- Appendix E: A Note on the Record Linkage -- Subject Index