一九世紀前半の南ウェイルズにおける人口移動に関する一考察

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• The population statistics in the first half of the nineteenth century, especially the occupational census in 1851 (and part of that in 1841), of South Wales reveal a rapid increase of population in manufacturing and mining counties and districts on the one hand, and rural depopulation on the other. They are, it seems, closely interrelated to the fluctuations of the iron trade in this area. It is not to be wondered at that natural increase in either Glamorganshire or Monmouthshire (a little in the latter, though), or even in the whole of South Wales, was below the population growth in the 1840s in spite of a little rise of the natural increase as a result of social increase. And the study of birth-places rof inhabitants in the census returns suggests that excess of in- over outflow from Ireland in the 1840s may have been nearly equal to the social increase in the whole of South Wales; that two thirds of immigrants in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire in 1851 were born within a radius of thirty miles; that by origin the majority of the immigrants in Glamorganshire came from South Wales, while those in Monmouthshire were originally out of south western England, although most of the immigrants in the three western districts of the latter were born in South Wales; and that Welsh people tended to move over shorter distance than those born in south western England. These features are not fundamentally inconsistent with the prevailing explanations, and together with valuable remarks found among the notes in the 1851 census returns, support the 'ripple movements' theory. But they throw doubts upon A.H. John's emphasis that there were considerable long distance movements as well before the 1840s. Further production of evidences will be necessary if his theory claims to be accepted. In any case it is highly probable that Welsh people engaged in almost all the processes in iron and coal industries, having left entrepreneurial activities to English men.

• 社会経済史学会の論文
• 1975-03-25

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• 南部 宣行

  早稲田大学政治経済学部

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