Social Mobility in Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century England

by Andrew Miles

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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'...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312220456

ISBN13:9780312220457

Release Date:July 1999

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:262 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

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