Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England

List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Exploring the Land of Boundless Opportunity Social Mobility and Class Formation Industrialisation and Social Fluidity Occupations, Classes and Mobility Career Mobility Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility Marriage Markets and Women's Role in Social Mobility Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective Appendix 1: The Social Classification Scheme Appendix 2: Clas Outflow and Inflow Rates of Selected Occupational Groups Appendix 3: Occupational Sector Distributions of Grooms by Class and Sector of Fathers by Marriage Cohort Notes Bibliography Index