Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

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.

Autorentext

Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.

Zusammenfassung
Provides an historical analysis of occupational and social mobility in England. This text shows how the development of the 19th-century economy was accompanied by rising rates of mobility, which made English society more "open" while at the same encouraging a process of working-class formation.

Inhalt
List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Exploring the Land of Boundless Opportunity Social Mobility and Class Formation Industrialisation and Social Fluidity Occupations, Classes and Mobility Career Mobility Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility Marriage Markets and Women's Role in Social Mobility Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective Appendix 1: The Social Classification Scheme Appendix 2: Clas Outflow and Inflow Rates of Selected Occupational Groups Appendix 3: Occupational Sector Distributions of Grooms by Class and Sector of Fathers by Marriage Cohort Notes Bibliography Index