Social Mobility in Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century England

by Andrew Miles

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"