How Did Illiterates Fare as Literacy Became Almost Universal? Evidence from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Liverpool

Autor/in	Mitch, David
Titel	How Did Illiterates Fare as Literacy Became Almost Universal? Evidence from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Liverpool
Quelle	In: Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 34 (2003) 2-3, S.313-335 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-4805
DOI	10.1023/B:INCH.0000015907.20999.d9
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Marriage; Job Skills; Employment Qualifications; Illiteracy; History; Semiskilled Workers; United Kingdom (Liverpool) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ehe; Produktive Fertigkeit; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Analphabetismus; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Semi-skilled worker; Semi-skilled workers; Semiskilled worker; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Angelernter Arbeitnehmer
Abstract	A sample of marriage registers from the parish of Liverpool St. Nicholas Church in England between 1839-1927 is used to examine changing characteristics of grooms who signed with a mark over this period. The proportion of illiterate grooms in the parish fell from about a third to under 5%. Age at marriage and likelihood of being a widower rose markedly for illiterates over the period relative to literate grooms. The percentage of illiterate grooms marrying literate brides rose markedly as well; however, in contrast with national tendencies, there was less evidence of assortative mating by literacy or of any downward trend in this for the Liverpool sample. There was no evident rise in literacy requirements for employment in the transport sector which dominated the Liverpool economy throughout the period under consideration. This implied that even in the first three decades of the 20th century with signature ability almost universal, most illiterate grooms in Liverpool were not in unskilled occupations. However, illiterate grooms were increasingly less likely over time to be in skilled manual occupations. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10