IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/intecp/978-1-349-04063-6_10.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

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

In: Economic Growth and Resources

Author

Listed:
  • Irma Adelman

    (University of Maryland)

  • Cynthia Taft Morris

    (University of Maryland)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Irma Adelman & Cynthia Taft Morris, 1980. "An Inquiry into the Course of Poverty in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries," International Economic Association Series, in: R. C. O. Matthews (ed.), Economic Growth and Resources, chapter 10, pages 176-220, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-04063-6_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04063-6_10
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-04063-6_10. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.