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.
Andrew Miles is co-author of "Building European Society: Occupational and Social Mobility in Europe 1840-1940", and co-author of the "Remaking of the British Working Class 1840-1940".
About the Author
Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.
Book Information
ISBN 9780333620595
Author A. Miles
Format Hardback
Page Count 262
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Andrew Miles is co-author of "Building European Society: Occupational and Social Mobility in Europe 1840-1940", and co-author of the "Remaking of the British Working Class 1840-1940".
About the Author
Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.
Book Information
ISBN 9780333620595
Author A. Miles
Format Hardback
Page Count 262
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
