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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.
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.
University of Chicago Press; April 2008
478 pages; ISBN 9780226771595
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Subject categories
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
- Academic > Health Sciences > Public aspects of medicine > Medicine and the state
- Academic > Health Sciences > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine
- Academic > Sociology > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
- Medical > Occupational & Industrial Medicine
- Political Science > Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science > Sociology
- Social Science > Anthropology
- Business > Economic History
- Business > Industries
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9780226771595
9780226771564
0226771598

