An Inquiry into the Course of Poverty in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries

Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris
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Cynthia Taft Morris: University of Maryland

Chapter 10 in Economic Growth and Resources, 1980, pp 176-220 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper is an inquiry into the course of poverty during the heyday of the expansion of market capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The focus is on the impact on poverty of commercialisation and industrialisation in countries which underwent some significant aggregate economic change during the period 1850–1914. Traditional economic historians writing on the nineteenth century have not usually stressed the human costs of economic change. Marxian historians have emphasised these costs but have not successfully represented the wide variations in sequences and patterns which characterise the course of poverty under nineteenth-century capitalism. The originality of the study lies in the breadth of its sample and variables and the application of methods of pattern recognition.

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Economic History; Extreme Poverty; Commodity Market; Land Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04063-6_10

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