Real incomes of the British middle class, 1760‐1850: the experience of clerks at the East India Company

Boot, H. M.

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“…6 Bordo and Filardo (2005) characterize deflations into good (caused by positive supply shocks and accompanied by economic growth), bad (caused by demand shocks and associated with a recession), and ugly (the ones where deflation becomes self-reinforcing). 7 Studies on good deflation mainly focus on the classical international gold standard period, 1870-1914 Capie & Wood, 2004;Bordo et al, 2010;Beckworth, 2007). 8 As noted above, the Bank Charter Act of 1844 was instrumental here as it established some elements of central banking (Mokyr, 2009).…”

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“…His indices are particularly well-suited as he used a set of budgets of families who lived in London in the mid-1820s to construct the indices of the cost of living for the middle-class families. A third allocation of expenditure based on the Feinstein's working-class cost of living and reported in Boot (1999) is used for unskilled workers. Allocation of expenditure by class was done in line with Boot (1999): the one based on the expenditure of a household on £250 income was applied to incomes ranging from £150 to £500, the one on £750 income -for incomes above £500.…”

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“…A third allocation of expenditure based on the Feinstein's working-class cost of living and reported in Boot (1999) is used for unskilled workers. Allocation of expenditure by class was done in line with Boot (1999): the one based on the expenditure of a household on £250 income was applied to incomes ranging from £150 to £500, the one on £750 income -for incomes above £500. Feinstein's index was used for incomes below £150.…”

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“…6 Behavior of wages during a good deflation episode is not yet explored unlike their behavior during bad deflation. 7 Twentieth century history has highlighted an important link between price changes and wages during bad deflation episodes, for example wage rigidities during the interwar years are blamed for exacerbating the effects of deflation on unemployment. Therefore, it appears that salaries are expected to be quite responsive to macroeconomic developments such as changes in prices, both deflation and inflation.…”

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Assessment of income inequality in the nineteenth century Great Britain’s banking industry

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2018

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This paper presents new historical series of wages of white-collar workers in England during the Industrial Revolution that is based on individual-level data. Both nominal and real wages are shown for different categories of employees.Šiame straipsnyje pristatoma nauja, istorinė Anglijos bankų sektoriaus atlyginimų serija, buvusi pramonės perversmo metu, sudaryta iš archyvinės medžiagos individualiu lygmeniu. Nominalūs ir realūs atlyginimai suskirstyti pagal skirtingas darbuotojų kategorijas.

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“…For more on the role of the government and monarchy, refer to Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983), Richards (1991), Colley (1992, Finer (1997), and Cannadine (2001). Useful reading on the organisation of British industry prior to 1830 includes Berg (1994), Crafts (1994), and Boot (1999). 19.…”

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The social and technological origins of the information society

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Bawden

2005

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the theory of a control revolution in nineteenth century England, and its social and technological implications for the information society. It takes up where most historical interpretations of the industrial revolution end, and before most analyses of the digital era begin. The work focuses on three distinct types of technological advance – in transportation, in communication, and in the processing of information – without adopting a technologically deterministic argument.Design/methodology/approachHistorical analysis, based on both primary and secondary sources.FindingsThe article first considers the introduction of the railways, and makes a case in that there were two crises of control involving railway technology in the nineteenth century: a crisis of communication, and a crisis of organisation. It goes on to assess the growth of bureaucracy and organisation in commerce. The expansion of government surveillance power towards the end of the nineteenth century is also discussed.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is broad in its scope and therefore some necessary omissions and limitations have been made. Many of the terms used throughout have entire literatures on their meanings, but it is not the intention of this paper to engage further with these debates, and it is acknowledged that within this limited discussion there is room for some ambiguity surrounding terms. Such concepts have been defined as far as possible within the article. The impact of warfare and military organisation are key themes, and while extremely relevant, deserve fuller discussion elsewhere. Also, while there would have undoubtedly been effects upon the British Empire from English industrialisation and the resulting crises of control, it has not been possible to discuss the implications of differing socio‐economic and political conditions within the Empire in this paper. The increasing sophistication of other professions such as finance and accounting in this period have not been considered, although again, this is an area which deserves individual study[1].Originality/valueThe research takes a step towards demonstrating that the origins of the information society can be traced back to the structural and organisational implications of the control revolution of the nineteenth century. The methods of control created the basic communication infrastructures still used in 2005, and set the precedent for government intervention and social surveillance. It concludes by discussing the potential crises of control within the information society.

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Real incomes of the British middle class, 1760‐1850: the experience of clerks at the East India Company

Cited by 54 publications

References 27 publications

Assessment of income inequality in the nineteenth century Great Britain’s banking industry

Assessment of income inequality in the nineteenth century Great Britain’s banking industry

The social and technological origins of the information society

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