Coping with City Growth During the British Industrial Revolution

by Jeffrey G. Williamson

Book Overview

Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521364809
• ISBN13: 9780521364805
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"