Overview
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.
- | Author: A. Miles
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Jul 16, 1999
- | Number of Pages: 262 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0312220456
- | ISBN-13: 9780312220457
