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Overcrowding in British cities in 1904

Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban working class in 1904, using a re-discovered survey. We investigate overcrowding and we find major regional differences. Scottish households were more overcrowded despite being less poor. Investigating the causes of...

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No room to live : urban overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality … ; infant mortality ; Bowley …

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The end of destitution

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...

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Poverty in Britain in 1904 : an early social survey rediscovered

Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early 1900s. These data are more representative of urban working households in Britain in the period...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557352

The first world war and working-class food consumption in Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2010

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156099

The declines in infant mortality and fertility : evidence from British cities in demographic transition

Newell, Andrew; Gazeley, Ian - 2012

declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We … improvement to long-period infant mortality reduction. We also find the extension of basic literacy is related to increases in … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality …

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The transformation of hunger revisited

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Bezabih, Mintewab - 2013

We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are thirty percent too low. Logan buttressed his estimates by claiming that the income elasticity of...

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The poor and the poorest, fifty years on

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; Searle, … - 2014

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household...

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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...

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What really happened to British inequality in the early 20th century? : evidence from national household expenditure surveys 1890-1961

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017

We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to 1961, some of which we recovered and digitised. After adjusting for differences in scope and sampling, we find little change in inequality among worker households over the period...

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