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Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England 1999th Edition
Author(s): A. Miles (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: April 12, 1999
- Edition: 1999th
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333620593
- ISBN-13: 9780333620595
Book Description
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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About the Author
Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.
