Jeffrey G. Williamson

Coping with City Growth During the British Industrial Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521893886
• ISBN-10: 0521893887
• Artikelnr.: 22147772

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgments
1. Coping with city growth, past and present
2. The urban demographic transition: births, deaths, and immigration
3. Migrant selectivity, brain drain, and human capital transfers
4. The demand for labor and immigrant absorption off the farm
5. Absorbing the city immigrants
6. The impact of the Irish on British labor markets
7. Did British labor markets fail during the industrial revolutions?
8. Did Britain's cities grow too fast?
9. City housing, density, disamenities, and death
10. Did Britain underinvest in its cities? References
Index.