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Importing sobrie'tea' : understanding the tea trade during the Industrial Revolution
Bora, Kabeer - 2023
Economic historian Robert Allen observed that during the Industrial Revolution, the British working class experienced a period of stagnant real wages. This has led many historians to investigate changes in the diet of the working class during that time. While there has been a focus on the entire...
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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014
Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...
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Living standards and inequality in the Industrial Revolution : evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s
Blum, Matthias; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2019
Trends in living standards during the Industrial Revolution is a core debate in economic history. Studies using anthropometric records from institutional sources have found downward trends in living standards during the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper contributes to this...
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Directed technical change and the British industrial revolution
Stern, David I.; Pezzey, John C. V.; Lu, YingYing - 2020
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Made in America? : The new world, the old, and the industrial revolution
Clark, Gregory; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Taylor, Alan M. - 2008
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Infrastructure finance and industrial takeoff in the United Kingdom
Trew, Alex (contributor) - 2008
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Luddites and the demographic transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Taylor, … - 2008
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Explaining the first industrial revolution : two views
Crafts, Nicholas - 2010
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Roots of the Industrial Revolution
Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015
We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 counties of England … between 1760 and 1830. Against the widespread view that high wages and cheap coal drove industrialization, we find that … industrialization was restricted to low wage areas, while energy availability (coal or water) had little impact Instead we find that …
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