کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1127075 1488648 2008 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town in the early twentieth century
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town in the early twentieth century
چکیده انگلیسی
The paper offers an analysis of the demography of the confessionally-divided and heavily industrialized northern Irish town of Lurgan in the early twentieth century. Its main source is the individual household forms of the Irish population census of 1911. This was the first Irish census to provide household-level data on the number of children born-and the number still surviving-to married couples co-resident at the time of the census. The paper begins by producing standard cross-tabulations of socio-economic status, as represented by literacy, numeracy, occupation, and the labour force participation of married women, by religion. It then presents econometric analyses of female labour force participation, marital fertility, and infant and child mortality. The greater poverty of Catholic households forced a higher proportion of mothers to work outside the home, mainly as unskilled workers in the town's linen mills. The analysis of the marital fertility suggests that confessional affiliation did not influence family size much at this juncture. The analysis of infant and child mortality suggests that religious affiliation was to a significant extent a cloak for living standards and socio-economic advantage.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The History of the Family - Volume 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 350-359
نویسندگان
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