What were common jobs in 1912 in Britain?

Answer 1

Common jobs for women in the period c. 1900-1914 included: # Domestic servants # Factory work (especially in cotton mills) # Telegraph clerks # Telephone operators # Secretarial work. (The level of responsibility varied a lot). # School teaching

Answer 2

According to the 1911 census, the most common occupations were

1) Domestic service (which included everything from cleaner and maid of all work, to very top service such as butler, housekeeper, valet, and all the occupations to do with the care of horses such as groom, ostler, coachman, stable boy, etc). Even comparatively humble families employed at least a girl and usually a charwoman as well, plus temporary servants like nursemaids if they had small children.

2) Agriculture.

3) Mining

4) Building

5) Cotton industry (this depended on Britain still having an empire as the raw cotton was produced in India, shipped to Britain, made into cloth - mostly in Lancashire - and exported to the rest of the world)

Answer 3

People did the EXACT same jobs in the early 1900's as they do today.

Restaurants run the same way.

Banks, Stock Market, Credit Unions, have barely changed in 150 years.

Retail stores, hardware stores, bakeries, meat shops ..... what is there TO change?

Doctors, secretaries, lawyers, police officers, teachers, chefs, cooks, bulters, waitresses ...still the same.

Farmers, train engineers, lumbermen, fishermen, sailors, soldiers, ferry boat captains .... nothing different there.

There's not a "detailed" answer to give you.

Pretty much the same jobs existed in 1900, minus all the electronic gadgets we use today.