Coping with City Growth during the British Industrial Revolution

ISBN: 9780521893886 出版年：1990 页码：364 Jeffrey G Williamson Cambridge University Press

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgments 1. Coping with city growth, past and present 2. The urban demographic transition: births, deaths, and immigration 3. Migrant selectivity, brain drain, and human capital transfers 4. The demand for labor and immigrant absorption off the farm 5. Absorbing the city immigrants 6. The impact of the Irish on British labor markets 7. Did British labor markets fail during the industrial revolutions? 8. Did Britain's cities grow too fast? 9. City housing, density, disamenities, and death 10. Did Britain underinvest in its cities? References Index.