The Quality of Life in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, in the Period 1800–50
- 18 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Review of Social History
- Vol. 23 (3) , 382-404
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859000005861
Abstract
For most of the present century economic and social historians have intermittently debated the question of the standard of living during the first phase of the Industrial Revolution, 1780–1830. As both the “pessimists” and the “optimists” acknowledge, too much emphasis can easily be placed on wage levels and the more easily measured aspects of the question, to the neglect of the quality of life and its non-quantifiable aspects. Insufficient explicit attention has also been paid to the divergent experience of different occupations and different districts of the country.Keywords
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