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2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Labour Migration in an English Town in the 19th Century A case study of Middlesbrough based on iron industry

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11430017
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionKomazawa University

Principal Investigator

YASUMOTO Minoru  Komazawa Univ., Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (00067860)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
Keywordslabour market / migration / urbanisation / industrialsation / iron industry / Middlesbrough / industrial cluster / age-and gender-specific structure of ppulaion
Research Abstract

One of the aims of this research has been to investigate labor migration and the making of Victorian Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire. It has been mainly based on the linkage work of the census enumerator' books from 1851 to 1881. The other aim has been to examine the effects on the health of the inhabitants and on the development of urban-infrastructure of the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in the latter half of the 19^<th> century. This aspect has been made clear by the analysis of the relevant literary source materials and the case books of the North Ormesby Hospital. The following facts have been found for the migration profile and labor market during the period under review, 1.Between 1851 and 1861 when the rapid expansion of iron industry was seen, a huge amount of migrants poured into the town, which brought about extraordinary age-and gender-specific structure of the population. This population structure remained until at least 1881. 2. There seemed to have been multi-structured labor market ; with skilled or semi-skilled workers being supplied from certain, limited areas of the country, where a particular industry located, irrespective of distance, whereas unskilled labourers were recruited from within relatively short-distance areas. As regards the deterioration of environment and its effect on the health of the inhabitants, various idiosyncrasies of urban morbidity have been uncovered from the analysis of the case books of North Ormesby Hospital.

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] Minoru Yasumoto: "Migrants in Middlesbrough in the Nineteenth Century : A possibility study on a longitudinal migration profile and others"駒沢大学経済学論集. 31巻3号. 1-36 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 安元 稔: "イギリス近代都市の一類型-製鉄工業都市ミドルズブロウ"龍谷大学経済学論集. 41巻1号. 143-165 (2001)

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  • [Publications] 安元 稔: "近代イギリスの人口移動:最近における研究動向-プーリー・ウィザーズ・マクレイルドの著作に寄せて-"社会経済史学. 67巻3号. 71-78 (2001)

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  • [Publications] 安元 稔: "「センサス個票から見た近代イギリスの人口移動-一八五一年のリーズ-速見融編著『近代移行期の家族と歴史』"ミネルヴァ書房. 244(161-203) (2002)

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  • [Publications] Minoru Yasumoto: "Migrants in Middlesbrough in the Nineteenth century : A possibility of study on a longifudinal migration profile and others"The Economic Review of Komazawa University. Vol.31, NO.3. 1-36 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Minoru Yasumoto: "A Victorian Ironopolis : Middlesbrough in the Nineteenth Century"Ryukoku Journal of Economic Studies. Vol.41, NO.1. 143-165 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Minoru Yasumoto: "Recent trends in the study of population migration in eighteenth-twentieth century Britain"Socio-Economic History. Vol.67, NO.3. 71-78 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Minoru Yasumoto: "Migration in the Enumerators 'Books, Leeds in 1851"Family and History in Transition: From Early Moden to Moden Period, ed. by A. Hayami. in 244. 161-203 (2002)

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Published: 2003-09-17  

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