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Economic effects of the abolition of serfdom : evidence from the Russian empire
Markevič, Andrej M.; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496929
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Industriousness and divergence : living standards, housework and the Japanese diet in comparative historical perspective
Francks, Penelope - In: Australian economic history review : an Asia-Pacific … 62 (2022) 1, pp. 26-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168041
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Height and Standard of Living During the Industrialisation of Spain : The Case of Elche
Martínez-Carrión, José-Miguel - 2018
The purpose of this article is to present new evidence on living standards during the Spanish industrialisation process by means of secular trends in height. The data pertain to Elche, a town in the Valencia region of southeastern Spain that witnessed early and rapid industrial development in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928037
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Was There an ‘Industrious Revolution’ Before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300-1830
Allen, Robert C. - 2010
It is conventionally assumed that the pre-modern working year was fixed and that consumption varied with changes in wages and prices. This is challenged by the twin theories of the ‘industrious' revolution and the consumer revolution, positing a longer working year as people earned surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143882
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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
Steckel, Richard H. - 2022
This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic …. This decline of 7.6 centimeters exceeds by a factor of two any downturns found during industrialization in several … reasonable to believe that greater exposure to pathogens accompanied urbanization and industrialization, and there is evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322305
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Das Kieler Ostufer : Bevölkerungsstrukturen und Existenzgrundlagen seit Beginn der Industrialisierung
Breit, Günther - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013265795
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Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java : Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940
van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise - 2019
Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398420
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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
Steckel, Richard H. - 2001
This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic …. This decline of 7.6 centimeters exceeds by a factor of two any downturns found during industrialization in several … reasonable to believe that greater exposure to pathogens accompanied urbanization and industrialization, and there is evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470176
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An assessment of livelihood and working conditions of industrial workers in Delhi : a case study of Narela industrial estate
Chaudhary, Tanya - In: Manpower journal 52 (2018) 1/2, pp. 31-52
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255888
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Industrialization and inequality revisited : mortality differentials and vulnerability to economic stress in Stockholm, 1878-1926
Molitoris, Joseph; Dribe, Martin - In: European review of economic history 20 (2016) 2, pp. 176-197
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654116