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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465589703321

Autore

Grant Oliver Wavell

Titolo

Migration and inequality in Germany, 1870-1913 [[electronic resource] /] / Oliver Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon, c2005

ISBN

1-280-75843-0

1-4237-7087-0

0-19-151535-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Collana

Oxford historical monographs

Disciplina

304.80943

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - Germany - History

Equality - Germany - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Imperial Germany as an Example of Industrialization under Labour Surplus Conditions; 2. Sources of Inequality in Rural Germany; 3. The Pattern of Migration, 1870-1913; 4. Migration in Germany 1870-1913: A Statistical Analysis; 5. Demography and Migration; 6. Migration, Farm Size, and the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer; 7. Agricultural Productivity, Labour Surplus, and Migration; 8. Migration and Urban Labour Markets; 9. Industrialization, Migration, and Inequality; 10. Challenging the Kehrite View of Imperial Germany; References and Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H

IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - ;Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 presents a new view of German history in the late nineteenth century. Dr Grant argues that many of the problems of Imperial Germany were