Stephen Platt, Hilary Thomas, Sue Scott, Gareth Williams

• List of Figures List of Tables About the editors Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 2. The Impact of Income Inequality on Life Expectancy 3. The Gendered Resource Triangle: Health and Resources in Later Life 4. Gendered Differences in Longevity and Health in Eastern and Western Europe 5. Feminism and the Health Consequences of Women’s Work in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain 6. Conditions of Formal and Domestic Labour: Toward an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Gender and Social Class Inequalities in Health 7. Health Issues in Male Early Retirement 8. Occupational Health in the UK Gas Industry: A Study of Employer, Medical and Worker Knowledge and Action on Occupational Health in the Late Nineteenth an Early Twentieth Century 9. How Do Places Shape Health? Rethinking Locality and Lifestyle in North-East England 10. The Health Costs of Britain’s Industrialization: A Perspective from the Celtic Periphery 11. ‘Keeping up with the Joneses?’ Private Health Insurance as a Consumption Good? 12. Health and Ignorance: Past and Present Index