Occupation and Society
The East Anglian Fishermen 1880-1914

A social history of the East Anglian fishing industry, based on oral testimony.

Trevor Lummis (Author)

9780521521253, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 August 2002

228 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.366 kg

This book is a study of the effect of occupation on industrial behaviour and how occupation affects social, community and family life. The fishing industry was one of the last to experience the Industrial Revolution. In East Anglia, steam propulsion was introduced within the working life of the oldest of those interviewed for this book, and a number of radical changes in working practices, capital cost and technical development were concentrated into the brief period 1880–1914. As these changes occurred with different timing and force in the two major sectors of the industry - trawling and drifting - East Anglia is an ideal location in which to consider the effect of the forces and relations of production: the fishermen's industrial, social and political attitudes are related to their specific work experience.

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Part I. Occupational Structure: Introduction
1. Inshore
2. Trawling
3. Drifting
4. Working relationships
Part II. The Social Structure: 5. The concept of community
6. The social structure of ownership
7. Images of social structure
8. Political attitudes
Part III. The Family, Social Practice and Belief: Introduction
9. Female waged labour
10. Domestic life
11. Leisure
12. Religion: practice and belief
13. Community and conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography and sources
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]