By L. D. Schwarz
This booklet is the 1st full-length research of the London operating inhabitants and the results of the commercial revolution in London to seem for over sixty years. sooner than the mid-nineteenth century London would possibly not have skilled the direct results of the commercial revolution to any nice volume, however the oblique results have been felt strongly. L. D. Schwarz disagrees with the view that "The commercial revolution used to be a hurricane that omitted London and broke elsewhere," and seeks to pass judgement on the impression of industrialization on what used to be the country's greatest production urban. Its dimension and position as nationwide capital intended that London used to be in definite very important respects precise, however it was once still liable to some of the wider monetary alterations that happened in the course of the interval 1700-1850, and Dr. Schwarz bargains an in depth research of the adjustments to the economic climate and social constitution of London those wrought.
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To quote a study of women's work in nineteenthcentury London: A mixture of washing, cleaning, charring as well as various sorts of home- or slop-work in addition to domestic labour occupied most women throughout their working lives. The diversity and indeterminacy of this spasmodic, casual and irregular employment was not easily condensed and classified into a Census occupation. ; secondly, child care and training; thirdly, the distribution and retail of food and other6 articles of regular consumption; and, finally, specific skills in manufacturing.
As will be shown in chapter two, the areas in which London specialised did not, on the whole, employ a very significant proportion of its labour force because the labour force itself was so large that it prevented individual trades, however important, from standing out much. Manufacturing was, on the whole, small scale, its capital requirements were not usually high, its productivity was not particularly high, and it did not usually change its nature much during this period. Growth took place through capital widening and greater division of labour, not predominantly through capital deepening.
Numbers employed in the 'three ancient professions' of law, medicine and the church barely kept pace with the general rise of population. Teachers, of course, increased considerably in numbers, though it is doubtful how far the mass of teachers, many of them female and working in primary schools, should be considered 'professional' in the nineteenth-century meaning of the term. 31 General clerical jobs increased very substantially indeed throughout the nation, though commercial clerks were already one of the largest occupational categories in London in 1851.