직종의 분화와 전문직의 탄생

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The rapidly expanding British economy witnessed occupational diversification across different sectors during the early nineteenth century. Few research has to date investigated the causes of work-related hazard for a wide spectrum of occupations. This article estimates the probability of visual impairment for individual occupations using the occupational census data of 1851 and compares the result with a number of parliamentary reports of the 1840s. It first examines the merits and demerits of the data and then discusses how to estimate the occupational hazard. The result shows that newly emerging industries are more likely to cause visual impairment that traditional industries to the hazard.