Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870First published in 1985, Structure and Mobility was intended to be a sociological portrait of Marseille during the epochal changes of the nineteenth century. Working principally from marriage registers of the period, Professor Sewell brought together a vast range of evidence concerning patterns of residence, occupational recruitment, literacy, intermarriage, friendship, and occupational mobility for virtually every category of the population. From this data, Sewell was able to establish a systematic quantitative description of some of the most important social structures and social processes of nineteenth-century Marseille. Although deeply influenced by sociological methods and theories, the volume was written on the basis of readability and simplicity, and therefore has much to offer to the historian as well as the sociologist. |
Contents
Marseille and urban history | 1 |
The economic structure | 15 |
The occupational structure | 44 |
Occupational status | 74 |
The urban framework | 101 |
The demography of urban growth | 146 |
Migration | 159 |
Dangerous classes? | 213 |
men | 234 |
women | 270 |
Transformation from without | 313 |
Occupations practiced in Marseille | 327 |
Estimating artisan employers | 338 |
Notes | 346 |
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Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870 William Hamilton Sewell, Jr No preview available - 2009 |
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Agriculture artisan birthplace born Bouches-du-Rhône bourgeois backgrounds bourgeois occupations bourgeoisie brides and grooms Business and professional census of 1851 century changes city's Commerce de Marseille cour d'assises criminality daughters district domestic servants domestic service downward mobility elite employed factory female immigrants figures France French growth higher hinterland illiterate immigrant brides immigrant grooms important increase industry Italian Italian immigrants large number listes nominatives literacy rates literate longshoremen maker marchand maritime workers marriage registers Marseille's migration Miscellaneous Négociants nineteenth nineteenth-century Marseille non-Italian immigrants number of workers occupational backgrounds occupational categories occupational distribution occupational structure old city parents Paris patterns peasants percent in 1869 Percentage petite bourgeoisie population port proprietors Provence rates of upward Rentier rose Sales and clerical scale Second Empire seille service workers ships Small business small businessmen social mobility sons status scores Table theft Total trades unmarried unskilled workers upward mobility urban vagrancy Vaucluse women's occupations working-class