Professions & Trades
see also Shops - Types and Character ... 
see also
Transport menu 
    (eg. cab-related jobs under Road - Cabs)

§  Building and Construction
    — bricklayers  
    — brickmakers
    — carpenters and joiners (1) (2) (3)
    — navvies (1) (2)
    — shipbuilders
§  Cleaning, Rubbish Collection and Scavenging
    — bin-rakers 
    — chimney sweeps
    — crossing sweepers
    — dustmen
    — dust-yard scavengers 
    — 'early wormers' 
    — laundresses and washerwomen (1) (2) (3)
            see also 
            Health and Hygiene - Laundries

    — mudlarks and river scavengers
    — rag and bottle men
    — rag-gatherers, bone-pickers, 
            "pure" collectors (1)
(2)
    — sewer-flushers
    — sewer-scavengers 
    — steppers 
    — street-orderlies (1) (2)
    — 'The Vestry Horse' 
    — waste-paper sellers  
    — water-cart men (1) (2)
§  Clothing
    — boot and shoe-makers 
            (1)
(2) (3) (4) (5)
    — boot and shoeblacks
   
— boot and stay laces, sellers of
    — brace-makers 
    — 'Cheap and Slop Shoe Trade'
    — conditions in shops
    — drapers / linendrapers
    — a drapery tallyman 
    — dressmakers
    — fur-pullers 
    — hair sellers  
    — hare and rabbit skin seller
    — milliners 
    — necklace makers 
    — relining fur muffs and jackets
    — second-hand sellers
    — sellers of cheap jewellery
    — shoemakers 
    §  tailors and seamstresses
        — braces-sewers
        — button-holers 
        — coat maker
        — cloakmakers
        — 'East End shirt-makers' 
        — 'East End tailoresses' 

        — embroiderers
        — factory machinists
        — fur liners (1) (2)
        — garter-makers
        — 'Needlewomen' (Punch Jul-Dec 1849)
        — 'Needlewomen' (Punch Jan-Jun 1850)
        — sempstresses 
        — shirt collar makers
        — shoe-binders
        — 'slop' clothing makers and sweatshops
                 (1)
(2) (3) (4) (5)
        — stay-stitchers (1) (2)
        — stockmakers (1) (2)
        — tailors (1) (2) (3)
        — trousers-hands
        — uniform makers (1) (2)
        — West End tailoresses 
§  Craft and Household
    — 'bricabrac' sellers
    — brush-makers 
    — fringes for toilet covers, making of 
     §   furniture
          — bedstead-makers
          — cabinet makers
          — chair-menders
          — second-hand sellers of furniture
          — upholsterers
          — upholsteresses 
    — garret-masters (1) (2)
    — label-printers
    — match-box makers 
    — pipe-makers 
    — sellers of crockery
    — sewing sacks and tarpaulins 
    — weavers
§  Dockers and River Workers
    see also Thames - Docks
     — ballast men (1) (2) (3)
     — casual labour (1) (2)
     — coal-whippers et al. (1) (2) (3)
     — deal porters 
     — 'a dock labourer's history' 

     — dock masters
     — dock work
     — dock messengers (picture)
     — lumpers (1) (2)
     — raftsmen / raftmen / rafters
     — stave porters 
     — watermen (river) (1) (2)
§  Entertainers
    — acrobats and 
            circus performers (1)
 (2) (3) (4)
    — actors & performers 
            see
Entertainment - Theatre
    — children's entertainers 
    — 'Ethiopian serenaders' 
    — exhibitors of 'Happy Families' 
    — street entertainers
    — street musicians (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
   
         (8 - 'St. Cecilia's Day')
    — street musicians - brass
    — street organ-grinders (1) (2)  
             (3 - from ILN, 1846)
(4)
    — street singers (1) (2)
§  Factory and Workshop Manufacture
    — artificial flowers
    — factory-girls (1) (2) 
    — factory machinists
    — glass
    — gutta percha
    — life of an apprentice mechanic/artisan
    — looking-glass and picture-frame makers 
    — manure
    — matches
    — needles
    — sawyers 
    — tobacco 
    — trotter-scrapers 
    — watchmakers 
§  Financial and Money
    — bankers
    — company promoters
    — money-lenders
    — pawnbrokers 
    — rent collector
    — stock-brokers
    — tallymen (1) (2) (3)
§  Food and Drink
    see also Food and Drink
    — animal food sellers
    — bakers
    — barmaids
   
— bird food sellers (1) (2)
    — brewers (1) (2) (3)
    — 'bummarees'
    — butchers 
    — butchers' boys 
    — coffee-stall keepers
    — costermongers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
    — costermongers as fish-sellers (1) (2) (3) (4)
    — costermongers as flower sellers 
    — costermongers selling fruit and vegetables
    — cough-drop sellers
    — dairy produce, street sellers of 
   
— draymen (1) (2)
   
— duck-weed, a seller of (duck food)
    — fish-curers (1) (2)
    — fruit-stall keepers
    — 'general dealers'
    — greengrocers 
    — ice-cream sellers
    — ice harvesters and dealers (1) (2)
    — ice, street sellers of
    — milkmen (1) (2) 
    — milkwomen
    — muffin and crumpet sellers 
    — mushroom hunters
    — orange-girls
    — piemen
    — potmen 
   
— poultry, sellers of
   
— poultry and game, street sellers of
    — sellers from street stalls
    — sheeps trotters, sellers of
    — shell-fish, street sellers of
    — sugar bakers     
    — street sellers of 'eatables' 
    — street sellers of water-cresses (1) (2) (3) 
            (4) (5) (6)
    — waiters
    — waitresses 
§  Government and Officialdom
    — Beadles
    — 'Government Offices'
    — prison matrons
    — Registrars
    — School Board Visitors
    — workhouse matrons
§  Journalists
     — penny-a-liners (1) (2)
     — the sub-editor (1) (2)
§  Legal Profession
     see also Clerks
    — barristers (1) (2) (3) (4)
    — 'the lawyer'
    — judges
§  Medical and Health-related
    for Quacks, see Health
    — chemists, dispensing (1)
(2)
    — disinfectors
    — doctors
    — a dog doctor 
    — midwives
    — nurses
    — opticians
    — wet nurses
§  Military and Naval
    §  Sailors
       — Green's Home 
       — in the East End 
       — Missions to Seamen 
       — 'My Sea-Going Folks' 
       — Sailors, 1840s (photograph)
       — Sailors, 1850s (cartoon)
       — Sailors' Home
       — Seamen's Christian Friendly Society 
       — Thames Church Mission 
       — training ships
       — treatment whilst on shore (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
   §  Soldiers
       — 'Drawing Room Parade at Albany Barracks'
       — Guardsmen
       — list of barracks
       — 'Recruiting Sergeants at Westminster'
       — uniforms and clothing allowance
       — Yeomen of the Guard
§  Numbers in different trades
§  Professional Bodies / Societies
       see Education - Professional/Technical
       see also Organisations - Scientific Societies
§  Servants
    — accommodation
    — 'A Perfect Servant' 
    — beer, provision of
    — butler 
    — chambermaids
    — character (references)
    — charwomen
    — clothing 
    — 'coachman, groom, and stable boy'
    — cooks
    — country house, servants in a 
    — dairy-maids
    — 'The Domestic Servant'
    — 'Domestic Servants and their Duties'
    — emigration for servants
    — fear of disease 
    — 'female servants' 
    — followers
    — food and servants 
    — footman (1) (2) (3)
    — foreign servants 
    — 'the General Servant'
    — gossiping servants
    — governess
    — hiring, see registry-offices, below
    — hiring cheap servants
    — house-keepers
    — housemaids / maid-of-all-work
    — ladies'-maids (1) (2) (3)
    — laundry maids (1) (2)
    — letters from servants
    — monthly nurses
    — names 
    — nurses and nursery-maids (1) (2) (3)
    — pages
    — parlourmaids
    — pro forma letters relating to service
    — registry-offices for servants (1) (2)
    — relationship with employer
    — right to sell scraps
    — sacked servants 
    — 'Servantgalism' (1) (2)
    — 'Servants vs. Mistresses'
    — 'slaveys'
    — 'strikers' 
    — uniform 
    — valet 
    — wages
    — wet-nurses 
    — working hours
§  Service Industry / General (excluding Servants)
    — almanacks and diaries, sellers of
   
— animals, sellers of 
    — artificial flowers sellers
   
— artists' models
    — auctioneers
    — ballad sellers (1) (2)
    — ballet-girls (1) (2)
    — barbers
    — beauticians
    — birds, sellers of (1) (2) (3) (4)
    — blacking, sellers of
    — book-binders 
    — booksellers 
    — cab-men and cab-masters 
            see
Transport - Road - Cabs

    — callers
    — carmen
    — carriers (road haulage) 
    — cat's meat men (1) (2) (3)
           (4) [from 'London Town' 1883]
    — child minders 
    — clerks (1) (2) (3) (4)  
    — coal-heavers and coal merchants (1) (2) (3)
    — commissionaires
    — cookery instructor
    — cotton merchants
    — draught-excluders, street sellers of 
    — envelope addressers
    — estate agents ('house agents')
    — firemen
    — firewood seller 
    — 'fisherman'
    — flower-girls, sellers of plants, 
            seeds etc (1)
(2) (3)
   
— flowers, sellers of
    — gamekeepers 
   
— gelatine-cards, sellers of  (post-cards)
    — general dealers / dealers in sundries
    — hairdressers (1) (2) (3)
    — hare and rabbit skin buyer
    — hawkers in general 
    — hawkers and pedlars, 
            police regulation of (1903) 

    — holders of horses' heads, minders of animals
    — horse auctioneers (1) (2)
    — job-masters (1) (2)
   
         see also Transport - Road - Cabs
    — knackers / slaughterers
    — knocker-up 
    — lamplighters 
    — librarians
    — linkmen
   
— lucifers, sellers of  (matches) (1) (2)
    — menders
    — merchant seamen (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
    — messengers 
    — newsvenders & news-boys
    — omnibus drivers and conductors 
            see
Transport - Road - Omnibuses

    — packers
    — playing-cards, sellers of
    — plumbers
    — police see Police and Policing
    — porters (1) (2)
    — postmen
    — printers
    — publishers (see also Paternoster Row)
   
— race cards, sellers of
    — removal men 
    — sandwich men
    — school-mistresses (elementary)
    — shoeblacks
    — shop assistants
    — sign-painters
   
— small pedlars
    — a stenographic-card seller
    — street patterers (1) (2) 
    — street preachers
    — 'street salesmen' (1) (2) (3)
    — street-sellers of 'art-works'
    — street-sellers of blacking 
    — street-sellers of clocks 
    — street stationers (1) (2) (3)
    — tape and cotton, sellers of
    — telegraphy
    — telegraphy, women involved (1)
    — tinkers
    — toll-men
    — toy-makers (1) (2) (3)
   
— toys, sellers of penny
    — travel agents
    — umbrella makers 
    — umbrella menders (1) (2) (3)
    — the 'wall-worker'
    — water-men (cabs)
§  Trade Unions
    — Clifden House Institute
    — negative opinion of strikes (1) (2) (3)
    — response to strikes by management
    — 'A Prosperous Trade Union'
§  Trade organisations
§  Tradesmen (list from Dickens's Dictionary)