Health and welfare during industrialization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/33621
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Economic aspects; Industrialization - Health aspects; Quality of life; Stature - Economic aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SteckelRichard H <1944-> (Richard Hall) FloudRoderick
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Health and welfare during industrialization
• ISBN: 1-281-43111-7; 9786611431112; 0-226-77159-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458358103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research project report.