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Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Miles

    1. Department of Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 1-4

  3. Exploring the Land of ‘Boundless Opportunity’

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 5-20

  4. Social Mobility and Class Formation

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 21-47

  5. Industrialisation and Social Fluidity

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 48-65

  6. Occupations, Classes and Mobility

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 66-96

  7. Career Mobility

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 97-115

  8. Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 116-144

  9. Marriage Markets and Women’s Role in Social Mobility

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 145-175

  10. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective

    • Andrew Miles
    Pages 176-190

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 191-262
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK

    Andrew Miles

About the author

Andrew Miles is Lecturer in Modern Social History at the University of Birmingham.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

  • Authors: Andrew Miles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373211

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22045-7Published: 16 July 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37321-1Published: 12 April 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 262

  • Topics: Economic History, Social History, Sociology, general, Modern History

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