Health and Welfare during Industrialization.

Health and Welfare during Industrialization.

In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization...

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Main Author: Steckel, Richard H.
Other Authors: Floud, Roderick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
Subjects:
Public health > Economic aspects.
Industrialization > Health aspects.
Quality of life.
Stature > Economic aspects.
quality of life.
Industrialization > Health aspects
Public health > Economic aspects
Quality of life
Stature > Economic aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Health and Welfare during Industrialization; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Standard of Living Debate in International Perspective: Measures and Indicators; 2. Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States; 3. Health, Height, and Welfare: Britain,1700-1980; 4. Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden!; 5. Economic Welfare and Physical Well-Being in France, 1750-1990; 6. Health and Welfare of Women in the United Kingdom, 1785-1920; 7. Differential Structure, Differential Health: Industrialization in Japan, 1868-1940
  • 8. Heights and Living Standards in Germany, 1850-1939: The Case of Württemberg9. Paradoxes of Modernization and Material Well-Being in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century; 10. Height, Health, and Economic Growth in Australia, 1860-1940; 11. Conclusions; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

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