Urban Lives

An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Martin Dribe, Therese Nilsson, Anna Tegunimataka, Lund University) Dribe, Martin (Professor of Economic History and the Director of the Centre for Economic Demography, Professor of Economic History and the Director of the Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University) Nilsson, Therese (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Lund University) Tegunimataka, Anna (Associate Professor of Economic History, Associate Professor of Economic History

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The past 200 years have witnessed revolutionary changes in living conditions for most people in the Global North. While the broad outline of these processes is well known through extensive research at the macro level, we still know very little about their micro-level foundations, largely due to the lack of appropriate data in most countries. Through the lens of a Swedish industrial city, Landskrona, Urban Lives looks at economic and demographic change at the micro level of individuals and families to understand the societal transformations that profoundly changed people's lives during the twentieth century. These societal transformations--coinciding with industrialization, post-industrialization, and the emergence and culmination of the welfare state--encompassed groundbreaking advancements in living standards, a relocation of rural populations to urban hubs, and significant alterations in the fabric of everyday working life. Including an original data infrastructure, the book follows individuals and families in Landskrona across generations, and situates them in these broader social, institutional, and environmental contexts. Each chapter provides novel insights into the micro-level foundations of long term economic-demographic processes, and covers important research questions related to health, family, migration, and residential segregation. Original and comprehensive, Urban Lives offers an examination of twentieth-century demographic, social, and economic history, illustrating how personal choices and behavior were shaped by social transformation.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-26
Mått152 x 224 x 33 mm
Vikt703 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197761090

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List of Tables List of Figures and MapsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction Martin Dribe, Therese Nilsson, and Anna Tegunimataka2. Landskrona: The Industrial CityMartin Dribe and Patrick Svensson3. Economic Inequality and Social MobilityGabriel Brea-Martinez and Martin Dribe4. Migration in Times of Economic Growth and RecessionFinn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson, and Anna Tegunimataka5. Social-Class Segregation in LandskronaGabriel Brea-Martinez, Finn Hedefalk, Vinicius de Souza Maia, and Therese Nilsson6. Gender Revolution: Marriage, Fertility, and Divorce in the Industrial City Luciana Quaranta and Maria Stanfors 7. A Healthy Marriage? Marital Status and Adult MortalityIngrid K. van Dijk and Martin Dribe 8. Maternal and Infant Health: Understanding the Role of Institutions and Medical InnovationsIngrid K. van Dijk, Volha Lazuka, and Luciana Quaranta9. The Late Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Adult Mortality - An Urban Phenomenon?Tommy Bengtsson, Martin Dribe, and Jonas Helgertz10. Income, Inequality, and Geography: Disparities in Age at DeathGabriel Brea-Martinez, Finn Hedefalk, and Therese Nilsson11. Conclusion Martin Dribe, Therese Nilsson, and Anna TegunimatakaIndex

This edited volume examines the revolutionary changes in living conditions in the West. Everyday lives were transformed by the rise of industry, the decline of manufacturing, and the expansion of social programs. While this process has been studied extensively, this collection sheds light on these transformations by focusing on individuals and households in a single Swedish city (Landskrona) and its nearby parishes.