Social mobility in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England / Andrew Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Andrew, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social mobility--England--History--19th century.

Social mobility.

Social mobility--England--History--20th century.

Occupational mobility--England--History--19th century.

Occupational mobility.

Occupational mobility--England--History--20th century.

History.

England--Social conditions--19th century.

England.

Social conditions.

England--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Social mobility in 19th- and early 20th-century England

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

The first systematic historical study of occupational and social mobility in England.

Contents:

1. Exploring the Land of Boundless Opportunity 5

The issue of mobility 5

Social mobility in contemporary Britain 7

Perspectives on the British past 8

Historical social mobility in comparative perspective 13

The relics of mobility 14

Coding the past 18

2. Social Mobility and Class Formation 21

Origins and destinations, 1839-1914 22

Trends in class mobility 28

Mobility in context 35

3. Industrialisation and Social Fluidity 48

A land of boundless opportunity? 50

Structural change and the pattern of mobility 51

Trends in social fluidity 54

Fluidity in context 56

Structure and fluidity 59

Facilitators of fluidity 61

4. Occupations, Classes and Mobility 66

Occupational identity 67

Occupational succession 76

Pathways and prospects 85

Novelty and obsolescence 91

5. Career Mobility 97

Occupational maturity 98

Age and mobility 100

Age and time 103

Work-life mobility 105

The emergence of the bureaucratic career 110

6. Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility 116

Joining the labour market 116

Getting on 122

Leaving the working class 130

Bowing out 134

Taking stock 137

7. Marriage Markets and Women's Role in Social Mobility 145

Women and social mobility 147

Women's marital mobility, 1839-1914 152

Men's marital mobility 162

Marriage and family interaction 169

8. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective 176

The pattern of ninteenth-century mobility 177

From consistent trend to constant flux 179

Class formation and social change 185

Appendix 1 The Social Classification Scheme 191

Appendix 2 Class Outflow and Inflow Rates of Selected Occupational Groups 193

Appendix 3 Occupational Sector Distribution of Grooms by Class and Sector of Fathers by Marriage Cohort 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

ISBN:

0333620593

0312220456

OCLC:

39856140