Trade Union Unemployment Percentages for four sectors, 1902-14.
- Table ID:
- TU_PC
(1253300)
- Contents:
- Trade Union Unemployment Percentages for four sectors, 1902-14.
- Approx. number of rows:
- 6,386
- Table type:
- Raw Data
- Documentation Author:
- Humphrey Southall
- Geography:
- Reporting units are identified by:
Unspecified District
- Chronology:
-
The data cover the period
1901 to 1914.
Dates and times are identified by:
Month
Year
Sources:
- These data were transcribed from tabulations appearing in the
Board of Trade's Labour Gazette between 1902 and 1914.
The transcription includes all unemployment rates published for
the four main industries for which the Gazetter published tabulations:
engineers (January 1902-December 1914), shipbuilders (January
1902-December 1914), printers (February 1902-December 1914) and
carpenters and joiners (May 1901-October 1905).
Notes:
- The 'Trade Union Percentages', which give an unemployment
rate for the country as a whole, were calculated by the Board
of Trade Labour Department and have been widely used in studies
of pre-1914 unemployment. More detailed sectoral information
was published in the Department's Labour Gazette from 1893
on, but spatial statistics of unemployment, rather than numbers
employed, only appeared in the 1900s and were limited to five
groups. In the Gazette for June 1902 figures by district
were listed for carpenters and joiners, and for plumbers (not
included here). The figures for both groups refer to the end of
the previous month and, for comparison, appeared with equivalent
figures for the same month in the previous year.
- The earliest available data therefore refer to the end of May, 1901.
From July 1902 these figures were presented in tabular form but both sets
of tables ceased to appear after the Gazette of November 1905.
The Gazette of February 1903 introduced tabulations for engineering
and shipbuilding; including retrospective tabulations, continuous
series can be constructed for these groups from January 1902 to
March 1914, both series being replaced thereafter by data from
the National Insurance system. Lastly, the Gazette for March 1903
introduced a report on printing which continued into 1914.
- Each of these occupational groups was focused on a particular major
union: the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the
Boilermakers, the Typographical Association, and so on. In the
case of the engineers, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (A.S.E.)
contributed 99,423 of the 128,152 included in the district totals
for the end of March 1909, and the Steam Engine Makers' Society
contributed c.13,000 more.
- The data are clearly aggregates of trade union branch-level statistics,
such as those for engineers and carpenters included elsewhere in the database,
but are presented for sets of undefined 'districts'. The sets of
districts used for each industry are listed below. We would be pleased
to hear from any researcher who has located definitions of these areas.
Indices:
| Index | Type | Column(s) indexed |
|---|
| tu_pc_idx |
Unique |
occup, x_district, year, month |
Columns within table:
| Column | Type | Contents |
|---|
occup |
Text string (max.len.=9). |
Occupation to which rate refers. The entries
are (1) CARP=Carpenters and Joiners (2) ENG=Engineers
(3) PRINT=Printers (4) SHIP=Shipbuilders.
|
year |
Integer number. |
Year to which rate refers.
|
month |
Integer number. |
Month to which rate refers.
|
x_district |
Text string (max.len.=24). |
District to which rate refers (listed above as
'name in DB').
|
rate |
Floating point number. |
Percentage unemployed.
|
Additional Notes:
Districts listed in the table, by sector:
As noted above, the geographical detail in the
'Trade Union Percentages' was provided for
undefined 'districts', as follows:
Carpenters and Joiners (CARP):
| District |
Name in DB |
First date: |
Last date: |
| London |
LONDON |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Southern and S.W.Counties |
SOUTH |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Wales and Monmouth |
WALES |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| West Midlands |
W MID |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| East Midlands |
E MID |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Eastern Counties |
EAST |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Lancashire and Cheshire |
LANCS and C |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Yorkshire |
YORKS |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| N.Counties and Middlesboro' |
NORTH |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Other Districts of England and Wales |
OTHER |
June 1902 |
Oct 1905 |
| Scotland |
SCOTLAND |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| Ireland |
IRELAND |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
| U.K. Total |
TOTAL |
May 1901 |
Oct 1905 |
Engineers (ENG):
| District |
Name in DB |
First date: |
Last date: |
| London and neighb. Dist. |
LONDON |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| South Coast |
SOUTH COAST |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| S. Wales and Bristol |
WALES and BRIS |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Birmingham, W'hampton and Coventry |
W MID TOWNS |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Notts, Derby and Leics. |
E MID TOWNS |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Hull and Lincolnshire |
HULL and LINCS |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| West Riding Towns |
W RIDING |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Manchester and Liverpool |
MANCH and LIV |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Oldham, Bolton and Blackburn |
NE LANCS |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Barrow and Lancaster |
BARROW |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1903 |
| North-East Coast |
NORTH EAST |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Glasgow and Dist. |
GLASGOW |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| East of Scotland |
E SCOTLAND |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Belfast and Dublin |
BELFAST and DUB |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Other Districts |
OTHER |
Apr 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| U.K. Total |
TOTAL |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
Printing (PRINT):
Two different sets of districts were
used, three pairs of areas being merged from August 1905 on.
Figures for 12 months previously were used to add figures for
the new units for August 1904 to July 1905:
| District |
Name in DB |
First date: |
Last date: |
| London |
LONDON |
Jan 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
| S. and S.W. Counties |
SOUTH |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| Wales and Monmouthshire |
WALES |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| S. and S.W. Counties and Wales |
SOUTH and WALES |
Aug 1904 |
Dec 1914 |
| West Midlands |
W MID |
Feb 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
| East Midlands |
E MID |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| Eastern Counties |
EAST |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| East Midlands and Eastern Counties |
E MID and EAST |
Aug 1904 |
Dec 1914 |
| Lancashire and Cheshire |
LANCS and C |
Feb 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
| Yorkshire |
YORKS |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| Northern Counties |
NORTH |
Feb 1902 |
July 1905 |
| Northern Counties and Yorkshire |
NORTH and YORKS |
Aug 1904 |
Dec 1914 |
| Scotland |
SCOTLAND |
Feb 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
| Ireland |
IRELAND |
Feb 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
| U.K. Total |
TOTAL |
Jan 1902 |
Dec 1914 |
Shipbuilding (SHIP):
| District |
Name in DB |
First date: |
Last date: |
| Thames and Medway |
THAMES |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| South Coast |
SOUTH COAST |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Bristol Channel |
BRISTOL C |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Mersey |
MERSEY |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Barrow |
BARROW |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1903 |
| Humber |
HUMBER |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Tees and Hartlepool |
TEES |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Wear |
WEAR |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Tyne and Blyth |
TYNE |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Dundee, Leith and Aberdeen |
E SCOTLAND |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Clyde |
CLYDE |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Belfast |
BELFAST |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| Other Districts |
OTHER |
May 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
| U.K. Total |
TOTAL |
Jan 1902 |
Mar 1914 |
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