Blue Books and the Victorian Reader

Frankel, Oz

doi:10.2979/vic.2004.46.2.308

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“…An ever-growing number of states instituted official statistics agencies, which in turn became a ubiquitous feature of the modern nation-state. And they incorporated the new volumes and varieties of social data into the formation of new legislation, as was the case in the UK with the production of blue books [Eastwood 1989;Frankel 2004;Higgs 2005]. What this means is that statistics and social quantification, including the social theories of progress and reform hardwired therein, became institutionalized within the state apparatus itself.…”

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The Making of the Modern State: Social Scientization and Education Legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800–1914

Smith

2023

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Until the 19th century, the UK state stayed out of education. Only in 1833 would Parliament first pass an act that subsidized education for the poor. By 1914, 160 education acts had been passed, consolidating into the state schooling system we recognize today. This paper seeks to explain this remarkable progression. I argue that the emergence of social-knowledge institutions across the West was a powerful force of cultural construction. What I term social scientization, this process was multidimensional and translocal, entailing the elaboration, reification, and diffusion of functionalist theories of the nation-state that centered national education as means to greater cultural rationalization. Longitudinal analyses on comprehensive population data comprising over 10,100 UK parliamentary acts support the core historical insight of this piece: increasingly routine and aggressive forms of state intervention in education were the progressive instantiation of the 19th-century nation-state model, which was fundamentally epistemic in character and inextricably linked to the expansive cultural content of the ascendant social sciences.

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The Making of the Modern State: Social Scientization and Education Legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800–1914

Smith

2023

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“…20 The Report was commissioned with the purpose of providing a statistical basis for proposed legislation on child and female labour, so the factory owners had an incentive to downplay the harshness and extent of the work these groups performed. Oz Frankel has shown that interested parties perceived that giving testimony to government enquiries gave 'authority ' to their own claims, 21 suggesting that their testimony may have been biased. However, it is difficult to quantify the effect of this bias, especially as it may have been counteracted by some factory owners overstating the level of female and child labour, in order to claim that such workers were indispensable to the industry and, for the good of the national economy, should not have restrictions placed on their work.…”

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The importance of ideology: the shift to factory production and its effect on women's employment opportunities in the English textile industries, 1760–1850

Minoletti¹

2013

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The importance of ideology: the shift to factory production and its effect on women's employment opportunities in the English textile industries, 1760-1850 PAUL MINOLETTIContinuity and Change / Volume 28 / Issue 01 / Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S026841601300012XHow to cite this article: PAUL MINOLETTI (2013). The importance of ideology: the shift to factory production and its effect on women's employment opportunities in the English textile industries, 1760-1850.

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“AWFUL UNKNOWN QUANTITIES”: ADDRESSING THE READERS INHARD TIMES

Berman

2009

Victorian Literature and Culture

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Charles Dickens was lionized in the early 1850s for his political powers as a novelist, journalist, and reformer. A December 1850 review of David Copperfield in Fraser's Magazine affirmed that the so-called “Boz” has done more, we verily believe, for the promotion of peace and goodwill between man and man, class and class, nation and nation, than all the congresses under the sun . . . . Boz, and men like Boz, are the true humanizers, and therefore the true pacificators, of the world. They sweep away the prejusdices of class and caste, and disclose the common ground of humanity which lies beneath factitious social and national systems. Such tributes to his political powers must have been gratifying to a writer who had begun his career as a parliamentary reporter. They proclaimed the power of the writer in an age of print, bearing out Thomas Carlyle's sense that “Printing . . . is equivalent to Democracy . . . . Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making.” Fraser's elaborated on this idea by linking Dickens's uncanny ability to “introduce” characters to one another to his ability to “introduce” such characters to readers of different ranks. “Men like Boz,” the reviewer explained, “introduce the peasantry to the peerage” and “the grinder at the mill to the millionaire who owns the grist” (700).

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Blue Books and the Victorian Reader

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The Making of the Modern State: Social Scientization and Education Legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800–1914

The Making of the Modern State: Social Scientization and Education Legislation in the United Kingdom, 1800–1914

The importance of ideology: the shift to factory production and its effect on women's employment opportunities in the English textile industries, 1760–1850

“AWFUL UNKNOWN QUANTITIES”: ADDRESSING THE READERS INHARD TIMES

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