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The changing occupational class composition of London

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This paper is a response to the paper by Manley and Johnston (2014, "London: A Dividing City, 2001-11?" City 18 (6): 633-643) which analyzed occupational class change in London 2001-14. While it queries some of their classifications, the census data show that middle class growth seems to have stalled in proportionate though not in absolute terms from 2001-11. However, this does not fundamentally challenge Hamnett and Butler's thesis that the middle classes, upper and lower, have grown substantially in London over the last 50 years as a result of changes in industrial and occupational structure. The paper discusses some of the possible reasons for changes in the last decade and reiterates the importance of using census data as a tool for the analysis of urban social change.

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  • Chris Hamnett, 2015. "The changing occupational class composition of London," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(2-3), pages 239-246, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:239-246
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1014711
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    1. Antoine Paccoud & Alan Mace, 2018. "Tenure change in London’s suburbs: Spreading gentrification or suburban upscaling?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(6), pages 1313-1328, May.
    2. Chris Hamnett, 2021. "The changing social structure of global cities: Professionalisation, proletarianisation or polarisation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(5), pages 1050-1066, April.
    3. Antoine Paccoud, 2017. "Buy-to-let gentrification: Extending social change through tenure shifts," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(4), pages 839-856, April.
    4. Patrick Le Galès, 2022. "Castells, Cities And The Network Society: Formidable Ambition, Great Intuitions, Selective Legacy," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 113(3), pages 240-249, July.
    5. Geoffrey DeVerteuil & David Manley, 2017. "Overseas investment into London: Imprint, impact and pied-Ã -terre urbanism," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(6), pages 1308-1323, June.
    6. Jonathan Reades & Jordan De Souza & Phil Hubbard, 2019. "Understanding urban gentrification through machine learning," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(5), pages 922-942, April.
    7. Smith, Duncan A. & Shen, Yao & Barros, Joana & Zhong, Chen & Batty, Mike & Giannotti, Mariana, 2020. "A compact city for the wealthy? Employment accessibility inequalities between occupational classes in the London metropolitan region 2011," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).

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