Occupation-specific Labour Mobility during the Period of English Industrialization, 1750-1850

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Recent historiography, particularly researches which have been conducted
during the past couple of decades, has put strong emphasis on the importance of
regional development during the industrial revolution. In particular it has been
suggested that reliance on aggregate measurements of national growth rates in
GDP per capita have obscured profound structural changes taking place at the
regional level. The evidence presented here suggests a different view. At the
regional level, changes in male occupational structure turn out to have been
surprisingly muted. In all three regions with different economic circumstances,
we have found no evidence of a marked growth in the proportion of adult males
employed in the secondary sector. Not only that none of these places
experienced a radical growth in the size of the secondary sector, both London
and the West Riding actually showed a slight decline while Northamptonshire
data demonstrated significant, albeit temporary, de-industrialization.
In each of the county-level analyses, our results suggest

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I. Introduction
II. Key sources for English occupational structure
III. Case study 1: Northamptonshire 1777-1851
IV. Case study 2: West Riding of Yorkshire, 1755-1871
V. Case study 3: London 1817-1871
VI. Case study 4: Occupational labour mobility as derived from Cambridgeshireapprenticeship data, c. 1700-1850
VII. Conclusion
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