Occupational stress and the Victorian Asylum

这个博士项目将允许在19世纪社会的广泛领域考虑职业压力，并承认事实上的职业压力类型。它将以Tomkins对医疗从业者的研究为基础，向英国的多名白领工人开放职业压力研究，并将这些人与另一组人（由性别、工作类型、年龄或其他特征定义）进行比较。后者将与学生合作选择，基于他们自己的兴趣，并符合斯塔福德郡庇护录取中突出的队列。学生将首先利用庇护申请文件和案例簿来确定研究范围内的患者。斯塔福德郡档案收容所收藏包括1818年至1919年第一个县收容所的22卷病人个案笔记，以及Burntwood和Cheddleton的进一步卷（分别从1864年和1899年）。该材料将与现有的数据集交织在一起，包括人口普查报表和死亡登记，以获取背景社会经济信息。来自多个来源的患者数据的合并将允许学生设计多个部分传记（即人体学研究），以便更好地探索职业健康。

This PhD project will permit the consideration of occupational stress on a broad section of nineteenth-century society, and recognition of a de facto typology of occupational stress. It will build on work by Tomkins on medical practitioners to open out the study of occupational stress to the multiple white-collar workers of England, and foster comparisons between these men and another group (to be defined either by gender, work-type, age or other characteristic). The latter will be chosen in collaboration with the student, based on their own interests and in line with a cohort that proves to be prominent among Staffordshire asylum admissions. The student will begin by drawing on asylum admissions papers and casebooks to identify those patients within the scope of the research. The Staffordshire archives asylum collections include 22 volumes of patient casenotes for the first county asylum 1818-1919, and further volumes for Burntwood and Cheddleton (from 1864 and 1899 respectively). This material will be interleaved with existing datasets including census returns and death registration for contextual socio-economic information. The conflation of data about patients from multiple sources will allow the student to devise multiple partial biographies (i.e. prosopographical study) for the better exploration of occupational health.