Health and welfare during industrialization / edited by Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-

Floud, Roderick.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research project report.

National Bureau of Economic Research project report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Economic aspects.

Public health.

Industrialization--Health aspects.

Industrialization.

Quality of life.

Stature--Economic aspects.

Stature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in eight countries: the United States, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. And while the authors use traditional measures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, this volume stands alone in its extensive use of new "anthropometric" data-information about height, weight and body mass index that indicates changes in nations' well-being. Consequently, Health and Welfare during Industrialization signals a new direction in economic history, a broader and more thorough understanding of what constitutes standard of living.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Standard of Living Debate in International Perspective: Measures and Indicators

2. Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

3. Health, Height, and Welfare: Britain, 1700-1980

4. Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden!

5. Economic Welfare and Physical Well-Being in France, 1750-1990

6. Health and Welfare of Women in the United Kingdom, 1785-1920

7. Differential Structure, Differential Health: Industrialization in Japan, 1868-1940

8. Heights and Living Standards in Germany, 1850-1939: The Case of Württemberg

9. Paradoxes of Modernization and Material Well-Being in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century

10. Height, Health, and Economic Growth in Australia, 1860-1940

11. Conclusions

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611431112

9781281431110

1281431117

9780226771595

0226771598

OCLC:

476228530