Industrialisation and the city economy

Reeder, David; Rodger, Richard

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“…49 Indeed, Leicester had a high incidence of female labour associated with its domestic industries, and as has been previously noted, in 1861 ranked fifth in a survey of 24 towns. 50 Discussion has centred on the effect of the occupational structure of various urban areas on illiteracy rates, and also the effect on economic development. Indeed, there is a dichotomy of opinion concerning occupational-related illiteracy in the industrializing north between 1760 and 1835, for while Stone considers that illiteracy was declining, Sanderson disputes this, and provides evidence to show that it was in fact rising in Lancashire at this time.…”

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Gender, occupation, illiteracy and the urban economic environment: Leicester, 1760–1890

Brown¹

2004

Urban History

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This article examines the relationship between gender, occupation, illiteracy and economic development in Leicester from 1760 to 1890. Although Leicester's economy was at a proto-industrial stage of development, heavily dependent on domestic and workshop-based industries, interesting comparisons may be made with industrializing factory towns. There was similar reliance on child and female labour, and the industries appeared to develop in a climate of illiteracy. This new local case study is especially important for previous research concerning gender, occupation, illiteracy and economic development has tended to focus on urban market towns or newly developing factory towns.

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“…favourably with Coventry where 76.4 per cent of women were thus employed. 9 The measurement of illiteracy based on the inability to sign has been found to be a useful index for comparative purposes. 10 The research for this study was thus based on data extracted from Anglican parish marriage registers for each decadal year from 1760 to 1890.…”

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Gender, occupation, illiteracy and the urban economic environment: Leicester, 1760–1890

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2004

Urban History

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“…Please note that with our method we cannot ascertain this correlation to be causal, but consider it as highly probable. We argue that especially the status of industrialisation including urbanisation and land use change (Reeder & Rodger, 2001) can be regarded as proxies for the disconnection from nature and constitute the most probable causes for a lower BiL. In particular, the British Isles were the forerunners of industrialisation (Perkin, 1969), inventing most of the key technology, starting off with machines promoting clothes' production and operating their first steam‐driven spinning machine by 1764 and exhibiting the lowest BiL.…”

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The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement

Langer,

Burghardt,

Borgards

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People and Nature

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Understanding the nature–culture entanglement by combining the methods of natural sciences and humanities is little approached in neither of the fields. With a specific combination of methods from both digital humanities and ecology, we aimed at identifying several of people's life circumstances that relate to their individual sensitivity towards biodiversity. The circumstances with a strong correlation could be considered and targeted by decision‐makers, for example by developing specific education programmes for making people more eco‐conscious or adjusting relevant regulations. We applied machine learning techniques onto a database including information about the frequency of biodiversity mentioned in creative literature (BiL) from 1705 to 1969 as response variable related to metadata about the corresponding works and their authors as predictors, including localisation, age, gender and literature genre. The algorithm determined the response's dependency on each predictor, which can be interpreted as the intensity of this particular sensitivity parameter for biodiversity, and which we also related to time. We recognised that gender, age, region and settlement size are predictors significantly correlated to BiL. Statistically, these predictors can be viewed as starting points of the eventual individual level of awareness for biodiversity. For example, authors from villages exhibit a higher BiL than those from cities, which we interpret as a signal for the dependence of awareness for biodiversity on spatial distance from nature, which in turn can be addressed in urban development. Our conclusion is that applying a machine learning technique on literary data yields meaningful results, thereby showing potential for further similar investigations and the combination of methods from natural sciences and humanities to achieve so far unattainable insights. With our study, these insights could contribute to ecologically based decision‐making processes. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham

Finch

2017

Literary Second Cities

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Industrialisation and the city economy

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Gender, occupation, illiteracy and the urban economic environment: Leicester, 1760–1890

Gender, occupation, illiteracy and the urban economic environment: Leicester, 1760–1890

The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement

Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham

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