Author: Stanley D. Chapman Publisher: David & Charles ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Compilation of social research papers on historical aspects of urban area housing and living conditions in respect of low income industrial workers in the UK - includes information on urbanization, the standard of living, population trends, rural migration, the construction industry, medical care, slum neighbourhoods, employment, wages and rents, etc., in london, glasgow, leeds, nottingham, birmingham, liverpool and ebbw vale. References and statistical tables.
Author: Joseph Harley Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030892735 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 263
Book Description
This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.
Author: Richard Rodger Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521557863 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
Why did slums and suburbs develop simultaneously? Did the capitalist system produce these, and were class antagonisms to blame? Why did the Victorians believe there was a housing problem, and who or what created it? What housing solutions were attempted, and how successfully? These are amongst the central questions addressed by social and urban historians in recent years, and their arguments and analyses are reviewed here. The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation. The unprecedented pace of this transition imposed immense tensions within society, with implications for the urban environment and for local and national government. Housing is central to an understanding of the social, economic, political and cultural forces in nineteenth-century history; this book is an ideal introduction to the topic.
Author: Bernard Ineichen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135829519 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
This book links where people live with their health. The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discusses in detail current issues concerning housing and health and describes attempts at housing particular groups whose health is at risk.
Author: Rosemary O'Day Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1349236543 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 363
Book Description
While historians have written with ease about the state and the church, the family has so far defied historical analysis. As the primary cell of human social organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families and households in time, space and economy over the period 1500-1914 and draws together the important existing work.
Author: W. G. Hoskins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317871189 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of illustrations as in previous editions.
Author: Ian H. Adams Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135103376X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 319
Book Description
Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day. Most of the material is based on research in Scotland’s archives, housed in the Scottish Record Office. Special emphasis is placed on the causes of economic change and its repercussions upon Scottish town life. The urban stresses of the nineteenth century are analysed in detail, as well as the subsequent emergence of Scotland as Western Europe’s pre-eminent council house society. The unique character of Scotland’s housing occupies two chapters and for the first time the whole panoply of the statuary origins of the council house landscape is exposed.
Author: Stanley D. Chapman
Author: Stanley D. Chapman
Author: Stanley D. Chapman
Author: Stanley David Chapman
Author: Joseph Harley
Author: Richard Rodger
Author: Bernard Ineichen
Author: Rosemary O'Day
Author: W. G. Hoskins
Author: Ian H. Adams