Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Table 5.2 Males in probate in specific occupational groupings in Zone B, Southern
(Champion) Country, 1660-1858 (as % of males with known occupations)
1660-99 1700-49 1750-99 1800-58
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 69.7 67.4 53.2 48.3
Labourers 3.2 3.0 6.4 5.5
Extractive 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0
Building (excl. carpenters) 2.5 3.0 4.1 5.8
Tailors/bodice makers 3.2 1.2 0.0 0.6
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 2.5 3.9 4.1 3.1
Shoemakers/cordwainers 0.0 2.4 3.6 1.8
Other leather, horn and tallow 1.9 1.2 0.0 0.0
Carpenters/joiners 3.2 1.8 1.8 3.7
Other woodworkers 1.9 2.4 2.7 1.8
Blacksmiths/farriers 2.5 3.0 4.5 3.7
Other metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2
Needles/hooks/pins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Transport 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Innkeepers/victuallers 1.9 1.8 2.7 4.0
Other food, retail, service, dealing 4.4 5.3 13.6 14.2
Domestic servants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
Professional 3.2 3.9 2.7 5.5
Total males with known occupations (n) 158.5 168.5 110 162.5
The analysis of specific occupational groupings confirms that the occupational
structure was very different from that of the market town. Details are discussed below in
the relevant sections, but the supremacy of agriculture in this zone is evident as is the rise
of retailers and dealers in Period C.
Table 5.3 Male occupational structure (primary, secondary, tertiary) from marriage
licence data in Zone B, Southern (Champion) Country, 1680-1837 (as % of grooms with
known occupations)
1680-99 1737-54 1780-99 1810-37
Primary 74.5 69.4 65.8 67.2
Primary (without labs.) 74.5 59.7 57.0 58.2
Secondary 21.4 16.7 27.8 19.4
Tertiary 4.1 13.9 6.3 13.4
Total males with known occupations (n) 98 72 79 67
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