1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Socio-Economic Structure in an English Industrial Town during the Industrial Revolution
| Project/Area Number |
58530043
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Momoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
YASUMOTO Minoru MOMOYAMAGAKUIN UNIVERSITY, 経済学部, 教授 (00067860)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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| Keywords | Enumerators' Books / 1851 / Historical Demography / Household Structure / Urbanzation / Back-to-back houses / Cellar Dwellings / Through Houses / Population Migration / Urban Mortality / Labour Participation Rates |
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| Research Abstract |
This project proposes to show whether the general argument finds corroboration in our case study that the economic and environmental factors, under which the early Victorian working-class were living, exerted a variety of discernible influences on their demography, through the effects, for example, on their infant and adult mortality ? The results have been derived from an attempt at computer tabulation of the 1851 enumerators' books for the township of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
For this purpose, as for the identification of working-class families, we have opted for pinpointing them in Leeds by consulting the type of housing exclusively inhabited by them, that is, back-to-back or through houses, which can easily be identified on the large-scale five foot=one mile Ordnance Survey Plan of 1850 for the town. And to make the economic and demographic idiosyncrasies of the working-class families thus identified easier to appreciate, those living instead in comfortable terrace houses, also distinguishable on the O.S. plan as well as those living in a rural parish in the suburbs of Leeds, have been consulted.
The available evidence obtained from our attempt at computer tabulation of the 1851 enumerators' books for the town of Leeds testifies, all in all, that there seems to have been a differentia in demography in a variety of respects between the inhabitants living in urban working-class housing, and other social groups: differentia significant enough to merit further study, based on larger samples and types of housing more relevantly classified. Similar, more extensive research seems to be needed to confirm this provisional outline of the story, which might help toward a fuller understanding of economic and demographic idiosyncrasies of urban working-class families in early Victorian England.
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