OCCUPATIONS AND SOCIALSTRUCTURE

Abstract

Royalty and nobility 3,000 Baronets, knights and squires 50,000 Upper clergy, merchants and bankers, upper civil servants and lawyers 40,000 Independent gentry 150,000 Upper doctors and other professionals 20,000 Army and navy officers 70,000 Lesser clergy 75,000 Upper freeholders 300,000 Ship owners, lesser merchants, shipbuilders, engineers and builders 200,000 Lesser professionals, civil servants and Dissenting ministers 250,000 Innkeepers 375,000 Shopkeepers and hawkers 600,000 Master craftsmen and manufacturers 450,000 Lesser freeholders 900,000 Farmers 1,300,000 Teachers, actors, clerks and shopmen 320,000 Artisans and other skilled workers 4,500,000 Agricultural labourers, miners, workers on road and canal, seamen 3,500,000 Personal and household servants 1,300,000 Sailors and soldiers 800,000 Paupers, vagrants, prisoners and lunatics 1,900,000 Male Female Total population 10,224,000 10,736,000 Population of 10 years old and upwards 7,616,000 8,155,000 Agriculture: farmer, grazier, labourer, servant 1,563,000 227,000 Domestic service (excluding farm service) 134,000 905,000 Cotton worker, every kind, with printer, dyer 255,000 272,000 Building craftsman: carpenter, bricklayer, mason, 442,000 1,000 plasterer, plumber, etc. Labourer (unspecified) 367,000 9,000 Milliner, dressmaker, seamstress (seamster) 494 340,000 Wool-worker, every kind, with carpet-weaver 171,000 113,000 Shoemaker 243,000 31,000 Coal-miner 216,000 3,000 Tailor 135,000 18,000 Washerwoman 145,000 Seaman (merchant), pilot 144,000 Silk worker 53,000 80,000 Blacksmith 112,000 592 Linen, flax-worker 47,000 56,000 Carter, carman, coachman, postboy, cabman, 83,000 1,000 busman, etc. Ironworker, founder, moulder 79,000 590 Railway driver, etc. porter, etc., labourer, 65,000 54 platelayer Hosiery worker 35,000 30,000 Lace worker 10,000 54,000 Machine, boiler-maker 63,000 647 Baker 56,000 7,000 Copper, tin, lead-miner 53,000 7,000 Charwoman 55,000 Commercial clerk 44,000 19 Fisherman 37,000 1,000 Miller 37,000 562 Earthenware worker 25,000 11,000 Sawyer 35,000 23 Shipwright, boat-builder, block-and mast-maker 32,000 28 Straw-plait worker 4,000 28,000 Wheelwright 30,000 106 Glover 4,500 25,000 Nailer 19,000 10,000 Iron-miner 27,000 910

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