Population and Living Standards, 1870-1914
Författare
Redaktör
- Stephen Broadberry
- Kevin H. O'Rourke
Summary, in English
This chapter provides the first all-European overview of diverse aspects of living standards in a period when industrialisation and modernity began to show up in substantial improvements in general living conditions. Most obvious is this seen in the increase of life expectancy. A substantial contribution came from the decline in infant mortality which occurred almost simultaneously over large parts of Europe, despite levels were very different. An explanation is suggested for bot the similarity in the change and the difference in levels. Other treated aspects of living standards consider urbanisation with sanitary systems, income distribution and an application of the Human Development Index.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
108-129
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
Volym
Volume 2: 1870 to the Present
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Economic History
Nyckelord
- Human Development Index
- mortality
- urbanisation
- life expectancy
- income distribution
- Living standards
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9780521708395
- ISBN: 9780521882033