Population, Urbanisation, and Working People

Luca Mocarelli and Giulio Ongaro ()
Additional contact information
Giulio Ongaro: University of Milan-Bicocca

Chapter Chapter 2 in Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800, 2019, pp 19-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The second chapter provides a quantitative framework: first, how much was the population in the various regions and states that composed the Early Modern Italian peninsula? Given this number, in a diachronic perspective, the other two elements will be fundamental in the analysis: how the urbanisation rate changed across time and geographical areas and how much work force was available. These variables are fundamental in order to understand why labour had specific characteristics in specific areas or why these characteristics changed across time. Early modern Italy was a mixture of quite different demographical and “residential” situations that affected—together with other geographical, social, and economic elements—the organisation of work and the life of the workers.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-26546-5_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783030265465

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26546-5_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().