Social Mobility in 19th 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.

• | Author: A. Miles
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0333620593
• | ISBN-13: 9780333620595