Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

✍ Scribed by Andrew Miles (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 277
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Exploring the Land of ‘Boundless Opportunity’....Pages 5-20
Social Mobility and Class Formation....Pages 21-47
Industrialisation and Social Fluidity....Pages 48-65
Occupations, Classes and Mobility....Pages 66-96
Career Mobility....Pages 97-115
Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility....Pages 116-144
Marriage Markets and Women’s Role in Social Mobility....Pages 145-175
Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective....Pages 176-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-262

✦ Subjects

Economic History; Social History; Sociology, general; Modern History

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