This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this...

L'habitat ouvrier, issu des siècles de l'industrie fait partie de notre paysage. Nous sommes si habitués à le voir que nous sous-estimons, le plus souvent, sa nature et son importance. Parfois, il s'imbrique dans le tissu urbain, d'autres fois, c'est au contraire l'uniformité d'une seule et...

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...