General

• The Hidden World of the Victorian Working Classes
• Working-Class Attitudes: Stoicism and Acceptance
• The Lack of Social Security in Victorian England
• Bankruptcy in Victorian England — Threat or Myth?
• “Escaping self-sufficiency into the cash economy” — the Improvement of the Worker's Lot by the Industrial Revolution

Professions

• the Law
  • Judges
  • Solicitors and Barristers
• the Clergy
  • Representations of Anglican and Dissenting Clergy in Victorian Literature
• Construction: Clerk of the Works
• Civil Engineers
• Mechanical Engineers
• School teachers
• Physicians

Skilled Labor — Craftsman

• The Hierarchies of Victorian Workers: Craftsman, Semi-skilled Factory Operatives, and Laborers
• Victorian Wages for Skilled and Unskilled Labor: The Example of Construction Workers on the Thames Embankment
• The Prince of Victorian Manual Workers: The Skilled Craftsman
• Artisans
• Blacksmiths

Semi-Skilled Labor

• Miners
• Textile Mill Workers
• Welsh Dairies in Victorian London
• How bad was the life of the urban worker in Victorian Britain?

Agricultural Labor

• Sitemap
• Agricultural Workers (article from the 1874 Cornhill Magazine)
• "From Hand Labour to Machine Work in agriculture": Work and New technologies in the Victorian Era (1904)
• Harvesting Corn
• Country Occupations: Sawyers, Cider-Makers, Copse-Cutters, Hurdle-Makers, and Heath-Turf Cutters

Unskilled Labor

• Costermongers
• Railway porters and pundits
• The Victorian Navvy
• Victorian Navvies — Their Nationality, Religion, Social Position, and Relation to the Armed Services
• A Navvy's Glossary
• Construction workers: Butty Gangs, Working for Fixed Wages, and Ruskinian Economics
• London Nightmen (cesspool-sewermen)
• Tosher's and Rat Catchers
• Crossing Sweepers
• A Review of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's Selected Edition of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor

Gender and Work

• Victorian Women, Class, and Occupation
• Victorian Working Women: Sweated Labor
• Needlewomen: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Slop-workers
• A Washerwoman's Daughter
• Governnesses
  • The Figure of the Governess, based on Ronald Pearsall's Night's Black Angels
  • The Victorian Governess Novel
  • The Governess and Class Prejudice
  • Punch and Brontë on Training the Ideal Governess
  • The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography

Servants

• Domestic Service, The "Mute and Forgotten" Occupation
• What Kind of Staff Would a Victorian Household Have?
• "Maid in England" — the life of the Victorian domestic servant (Public Record Office exhibition)
• "On the Side of the Maids" --an 1874 account of a maid's hard life
• Kinds: Butlers, Maids, Cooks, Coachman, Gamekeepers, Gardeners

Child Labor

• Introduction
• What caused an increase in child labour during Victorian times?
• Mines

Criminal classes

• burglars
• mudlarks
• smash and grab

Three London pedlars by Gustave Doré