Great Britain Historical Database : Labour Markets Database, Trade Union Statistics, 1851-1918

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>The <i>Great Britain Historical Database</i> has been assembled as part of the ongoing <i>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</i>. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gbhdb/" target="_blank" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration-line: underline;">A Vision of Britain webpages</a>, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.<br></p><p>
The <i>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</i> has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at&nbsp;<a href="http:\\census.ukdataservice.ac.uk" title="UK Data Service Census Support" target="_blank">census.ukdataservice.ac.uk</a></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><p> The <span style="font-style: italic;">Great Britain Historical Database</span> is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables.<br>
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The <span style="font-style: italic;">Great Britain Historical Database </span>currently contains :<br></p><ul><li>Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861<br>
</li><li>Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931<br>
</li><li>Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931<br>
</li><li>Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920<br>
</li><li>Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870<br>
</li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918<br>
</li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912<br>
</li><li>Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939<br>
</li><li>Wage statistics, 1845-1906<br>
</li><li>Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913<br>
</li><li>Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938<br>
</li></ul><br>There are seven tables in this part of the <i>Great Britain Historical Database</i> :<br>
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<i>Ase_mr</i> holds data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) taken from the <i>Monthly Reports</i> of the ASE from 1851 to 1912, and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions. Quarterly data from 1851 to 1872 and biannual data from 1873 to 1912.<br>
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<i>Ase_mr_95_96</i> holds a fuller version of the biannual data transcribed from the <i>Monthly Reports</i> of the ASE for 1895 and 1896, for which a special compressed format was used.<br>
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<i>Ase_admit</i> holds annual admissions data for each branch taken from the <i>Annual Reports</i> of the ASE from 1853 to 1909.<br>
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<i>Ase_mem</i> holds annual data about changes in membership for each branch taken from <i>Annual Reports</i> of the ASE for 1871 and 1872.<br>
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<i>Ase_fin</i> holds summary annual data about the finances of the whole union taken from <i>Annual Reports</i> of the ASE from 1851 to 1918.<br>
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<i>Gaz_ase70</i> uniquely identifies individual ASE branches in existence between 1861 and 1871 and gives their location in 1871.<br>
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<i>Cj_mr</i> holds biannual data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ) taken from the <i>Monthly Reports</i> of the ASCJ from 1863 to 1912 (excluding 1870 reports), and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions.<br>
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Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br>
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