Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England
ISBN:
978-0-312-22045-7
Auflage:
1999
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.07.1999
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
262
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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.
Biografische Anmerkung
Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.
