DDS Entity Definition: R_RGSOC_45

Name:
Percentage of Working-Age Males in Class 4 & 5
Identifier:
R_RGSOC_45
Type:
Rate (R)
Definition:
RGSOC_GROUP:c45 * 100.0 / RGSOC_TOT_M:total
Display as:
Continuous time series
Text:
These two classes cover semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers. In practice, this covers labourers, including farm labourers; domestic servants; and many workers in transport. In the 19th century, these classes included something over a third of all male workers, declining to a quarter in the mid-20th.

In 1841, the geographical distribution is dominated by farm labourers, concentrated into the south east away from London, although the highest rates were found in textile centres like Oldham (60%) and Calderdale (Halifax) (58%).

Farm labourers remained important in 1881 and 1931 although the concentration in the south east was weakening. The area immediately around London had fewer and fewer districts with high or even medium proportions in these social classes, apart from a handful of districts along the lower Thames. In 1991 and 2001, the original pattern is almost exactly reversed, manual workers seemingly almost banished from the south east. South Wales, originally a concentration of skilled manual workers, i.e. miners, had become a concentration of the unskilled.

One explanation of these patterns is that over time management and technical work has become more and more concentrated into the south east of England, pushing unskilled work out to the periphery.

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Themes:

Entity IDEntity Name
T_SOC Social Structure


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