This pioneering book provides the first systematic historical analysis of occupational and social mobility in England. Using a collection of over 10, 000 marriage certificates to examine inter-generational change, and almost 500 autobiographical texts and abstracts to explore the dynamics of career mobility, it shows how the development of the nineteenth-century economy was accompanied by rising rates of mobility, which made English society more 'open' while at the same encouraging a distinct process of working-class formation.
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Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Exploring the Land of Boundless Opportunity
- 2. Social Mobility and Class Formation
- 3. Industrialisation and Social Fluidity
- 4. Occupations, Classes and Mobility
- 5. Career Mobility
- 6. Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility
- 7. Marriage Markets and Women's Role in Social Mobility
- 8. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective
- Appendix 1 The Social Classification Scheme
- Appendix 2 Class Outflow and Inflow Rates of Selected Occupational Groups
- Appendix 3 Occupational Sector Distribution of Grooms by Class and Sector of Fathers by Marriage Cohort
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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