Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

The source in Table 8.5 is more comprehensive than probate and marriage licences.
Table 8.5 shows that during Period D the secondary and tertiary sectors continued to grow
while primary declined.
Table 8.6 Occupational structure in specific occupational groupings from baptism registers
in the Whole Study Area 1813-1840 (as % of fathers with known occupations)
1813-
1840
1813-
1820
1821-
1830
1831-
1840
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 8.5 9.5 8.6 7.7
All labourers 48.5 50.8 48.3 47.1
Agricultural labourers * 42.3 44.2 42.1 41.0
Non-agricultural labourers * 6.3 6.5 6.2 6.1
Extractive 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.2
Building (excl. carpenters) 2.2 2.2 2.0 2.4
Tailors/bodice makers 1.2 1.0 1.1 1.5
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 0.8 1.3 0.7 0.4
Shoemakers/cordwainers 4.0 3.3 4.1 4.6
Other leather, horn and tallow 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.4
Carpenters/joiners 2.9 3.2 3.0 2.5
Other woodworkers 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2
Blacksmiths/farriers 2.0 1.8 1.6 2.6
Metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.4
Needles/hooks/pins 15.5 13.5 15.9 16.6
Transport 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.9
Innkeepers/victuallers 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.5
Other food, retail, service, dealing 4.8 4.3 5.0 4.8
Domestic servants 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Professional 1.5 1.2 1.4 1.7
Total males with known occupations (n) 18506 4913 6689 6904
* Labourers allocated according to the 1831 census
increase.
Table 8.6 shows that those involved in the needle trade were in reality still on the
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