Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain
Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 June 2024
- ISBN 9780198897552
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 242x165x34 mm
- Weight 946 g
- Language English 624
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Short description:
Built around a representative cohort of 750 'professional men' recorded in the 1851 census, this is the first statistically-based social, cultural, and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes.
MoreLong description:
Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were recorded in the 1851 census as practising a profession in eight British provincial towns with distinctive economic and social profiles: Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Winchester, and the twin county town of Northumberland, Alnwick/Morpeth. The book provides a collective account of the cohort's lives and the lives of their families across four generations, starting with their parents and ending with their grandchildren. It touches on the history of 16,000 individuals. The book aims to throw light on the extent to which nineteenth-century professionals had a distinctive socio-cultural profile, as sociologists and some historians have claimed, or were largely indistinguishable from other members of propertied society, as most historians today assume without further investigation. In exploring this question, particular attention is paid to the cohort families' wealth, household size, education, occupational history, geographical mobility, and broader involvement in society measured by their members' choice of marriage partner, their kinship and friendship circles, their political allegiance and their leisure activities. The book demonstrates that male professionals in the Victorian era were far from being a homogenous group, but were divided in many ways. The most important was wealth which played a key role in the social and occupational fortunes of their descendants. These divisions largely explain why some professionals and some individual professions were much more likely to display endogenous characteristics than others. The book also demonstrates that even the most successful professional families got poorer over time, and reveals how easily in the age of industrialisation branches of families and sometimes complete families could drop out of the elite.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Diagrams
Note on Abbreviations
Note on References
Note on Proper Names
Introduction: Locating the mid nineteenth-century professional
Male Occupations and Career Mobility
Male Family Members and Intergenerational Wealth
Moving About
Male Leisure
Family, House, and Home
Fathers and Sons
The Domestic Circle
Wives and Daughters
The First World War and Beyond
Concluding Remarks
