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SUMMARY:Industrialisation\, Economic Development\, the Industrial Revoluti
 on and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 (with som
 e extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011) - Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambrid
 ge)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper summarises findings from the Occupational Structure
  of Britain c.1381-1911 project using new datasets on (mostly) male occupa
 tional structure 1381-2011.  A number of key findings have come out of the
  project. First\, in occupational terms Britain’s transition to an indus
 trialised economy was essentially complete by 1700. Second\, the structura
 l shift in employment from agriculture to industry\, traditionally associa
 ted with the Industrial Revolution\, actually took place during the sixtee
 nth and seventeenth centuries. Third\, after 1760\, a labour-intensive for
 m of industrialisation gave way to a technologically intensive labour subs
 tituting path. Fourth\, the seventeenth century also saw some growth of th
 e tertiary sector and from 1700 the key structural shift was not from the 
 primary sector to the secondary sector but from the primary sector to the 
 tertiary sector. In the eighteenth century more areas experienced deindust
 rialisation than industrialisation as the textile industry concentrated on
  the coal fields.  Fifth\, these findings suggest a much more rapid growth
  in productivity in manufacturing industry during the Industrial Revolutio
 n than the national accounts literature had previously suggested. 
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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