Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Table 7.4 Bridegrooms from marriage licence data in specific occupational groupings in
Zone D, Northern (Needle) District, 1680-1837 (as % of males with known occupations)
1680-99 1737-54 1780-99 1810-37
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 58.5 45.8 43.9 45.4
Labourers 0.0 6.9 10.3 7.7
Extractive 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Building (excl. carpenters) 2.2 0.0 0.5 2.3
Tailors/bodice makers 2.2 0.7 0.5 0.4
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 1.5 1.4 1.3 0.8
Shoemakers/cordwainers 10.4 2.4 2.1 2.3
Other leather, horn and tallow 2.2 2.1 1.6 1.5
Carpenters/joiners 3.0 2.1 1.6 2.3
Other woodworkers 1.5 1.4 1.1 0.0
Blacksmiths/farriers 3.7 1.4 1.1 2.3
Other metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Needles/hooks/pins 2.2 21.9 21.2 13.1
Transport 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0
Innkeepers/victuallers 3.0 0.0 1.1 1.5
Other food, retail, service, dealing 7.4 10.4 7.4 11.9
Domestic servants 0.0 1.4 1.1 0.8
Professional 1.5 2.1 4.8 7.7
Total males with known occupations (n) 135 144 189 130
Various sources suggest a high number of shoemakers in the Stuart period, but
perhaps the 10% shown here is an exaggeration. The phenomenal growth of the needle
trade between Periods A and B is clearly shown, while the apparent decline in
needlemaking in the last period may reflect the proletarianisation of the trade and the
increasing employment of women and children rather than a real decline.
Table 7.5 Male occupational structure (primary, secondary and tertiary) from Anglican
baptism registers in Zone D, Northern (Needle) District 1813-40 (as % of entries
showing fathers’ occupations)
1813-40 1813-20 1821-30 1831-40
Primary including labourers * 31.8 36.1 32.3 28.4
Primary without labourers 6.6 8.7 6.5 5.4
Secondary including labourers * 62.4 58.8 62.9 64.3
Secondary without labourers 54.2 49.8 54.5 56.9
Tertiary 5.9 5.1 4.9 7.3
Total baptisms (n) 7825 2003 2860 2962
* Labourers allocated to primary or secondary sectors using information from the 1831 census.
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