Social mobility and integration of Amsterdam Jews: the ethnic niche of the diamond industry, 1850-1940s
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation studies the remarkable social mobility and varied integration patterns of Jews in pre-war Amsterdam, with a particular focus on Jewish diamond workers, who formed the community’s occupational and cultural core. Drawing on uniquely detailed life-course data and a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that Jews, on average, advanced in occupational status and educational attainment faster than non-Jews, surpassing them by the early twentieth century. This upward trajectory was especially striking among diamond workers, whose high wages, strong labour organisation through the founding of the first modern union in the Netherlands, and commitment to education created novel opportunities for men and women alike. Their achievements enabled them to move out of the overcrowded Jewish Quarter and fostered political influence within the Social Democratic movement, stimulating integration while preserving distinct elements of their Jewish identity.<br> The study is the first to examine Dutch-Jewish workers’ social mobility across multiple life domains—work, marriage, residence, and education—within a comparative perspective that includes Gentile counterparts. It highlights, in particular, the exceptional intergenerational gains achieved by Jewish families connected to the diamond industry. Additionally, it demonstrates that upward social mobility and integration did not necessarily coincide and sometimes diverged: despite their increasing social status, Jewish diamond workers were considerably less likely to marry non-Jewish partners or disaffiliate religiously. Beyond the diamond industry, gains in living standards were channelled into the education of the next generations, sustaining a cycle of intergenerational advancement in the early twentieth century.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it