04541nam 2200709 a 450 991078479280332120210604031743.01-281-43111-797866114311120-226-77159-810.7208/9780226771595(CKB)1000000000400330(EBL)408310(OCoLC)476228530(SSID)ssj0000169430(PQKBManifestationID)11159284(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169430(PQKBWorkID)10202866(PQKB)10001046(DE-B1597)535715(OCoLC)1055414867(DE-B1597)9780226771595(Au-PeEL)EBL408310(CaPaEBR)ebr10229985(CaONFJC)MIL143111(MiAaPQ)EBC408310(EXLCZ)99100000000040033019961209d1997 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrHealth and welfare during industrialization[electronic resource] /edited by Richard H. Steckel and Roderick FloudChicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press19971 online resource (478 p.)National Bureau of Economic Research project reportDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-77156-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 IndexIn 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.National Bureau of Economic Research project report.Public healthEconomic aspectsIndustrializationHealth aspectsQuality of lifeStatureEconomic aspectsinequality, education, real wages, per capita income, quality of life, industrialization, australia, japan, germany, france, the netherlands, sweden, britain, united states, body mass index, mortality, standard living, public health, economic growth, welfare, height, gender, women, poverty, modernization, wurttemberg, nonfiction, economics.Public healthEconomic aspects.IndustrializationHealth aspects.Quality of life.StatureEconomic aspects.338.4/33621Steckel Richard H(Richard Hall),1944-1478334Floud Roderick121580MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQDOCUMENT9910784792803321Health and welfare during industrialization3725156UNINA