de Pleijt, Alexandra De Pleijt; Weisdorf, Jacob - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2014
We use occupational titles from English parish registers in an attempt to test the deskilling hypothesis, i.e. the notion that England’s Industrial Revolution was mainly skill saving. We code the occupational titles of over 30,000 male workers according to the skillcontent of their work (using...