Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution
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Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 310-329
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural emigrants; the persistent influx of newcomers, which makes it difficult for municipal planners to improve the quality of social overhead; the crowding of migrants into densely packed urban slums with few, if any, social services; and rising density and city size which augment pollution while lowering the quality of the urban environment.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Coping with city growth, past and present
- 2. The urban demographic transition: births, deaths, and immigration
- 3. Migrant selectivity, brain drain, and human capital transfers
- 4. The demand for labor and immigrant absorption off the farm
- 5. Absorbing the city immigrants
- 6. The impact of the Irish on British labor markets
- 7. Did British labor markets fail during the industrial revolutions?
- 8. Did Britain's cities grow too fast?
- 9. City housing, density, disamenities, and death
- 10. Did Britain underinvest in its cities? References
- Index.
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