Urban Lives
An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 September 2024
- ISBN 9780197761090
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 224x152x33 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English 541
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Short description:
Through the lens of a Swedish industrial city, Landskrona, Urban Lives looks at economic and demographic change at the micro level to understand the societal transformations that profoundly changed people's lives during the twentieth century. Based an original data infrastructure, the book follows individuals across generations and situates them in their social, institutional, and environmental contexts. Chapter authors provide novel insights into the micro-level foundations of long term economic-demographic processes, and cover important research questions related to health, family, migration, and residential segregation.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The past 200 years have witnessed revolutionary changes in living conditions for most people in the Global North. While the broad outline of these processes is well known through extensive research at the macro level, we still know very little about their micro-level foundations, largely due to the lack of appropriate data in most countries.
Through the lens of a Swedish industrial city, Landskrona, Urban Lives looks at economic and demographic change at the micro level of individuals and families to understand the societal transformations that profoundly changed people's lives during the twentieth century. These societal transformations--coinciding with industrialization, post-industrialization, and the emergence and culmination of the welfare state--encompassed groundbreaking advancements in living standards, a relocation of rural populations to urban hubs, and significant alterations in the fabric of everyday working life. Including an original data infrastructure, the book follows individuals and families in Landskrona across generations, and situates them in these broader social, institutional, and environmental contexts. Each chapter provides novel insights into the micro-level foundations of long term economic-demographic processes, and covers important research questions related to health, family, migration, and residential segregation. Original and comprehensive, Urban Lives offers an examination of twentieth-century demographic, social, and economic history, illustrating how personal choices and behavior were shaped by social transformation.
This edited volume examines the revolutionary changes in living conditions in the West. Everyday lives were transformed by the rise of industry, the decline of manufacturing, and the expansion of social programs. While this process has been studied extensively, this collection sheds light on these transformations by focusing on individuals and households in a single Swedish city (Landskrona) and its nearby parishes.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables
List of Figures and Maps
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Martin Dribe, Therese Nilsson, and Anna Tegunimataka
2. Landskrona: The Industrial City
Martin Dribe and Patrick Svensson
3. Economic Inequality and Social Mobility
Gabriel Brea-Martinez and Martin Dribe
4. Migration in Times of Economic Growth and Recession
Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson, and Anna Tegunimataka
5. Social-Class Segregation in Landskrona
Gabriel Brea-Martinez, Finn Hedefalk, Vinicius de Souza Maia, and Therese Nilsson
6. Gender Revolution: Marriage, Fertility, and Divorce in the Industrial City
Luciana Quaranta and Maria Stanfors
7. A Healthy Marriage? Marital Status and Adult Mortality
Ingrid K. van Dijk and Martin Dribe
8. Maternal and Infant Health: Understanding the Role of Institutions and Medical Innovations
Ingrid K. van Dijk, Volha Lazuka, and Luciana Quaranta
9. The Late Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Adult Mortality - An Urban Phenomenon?
Tommy Bengtsson, Martin Dribe, and Jonas Helgertz
10. Income, Inequality, and Geography: Disparities in Age at Death
Gabriel Brea-Martinez, Finn Hedefalk, and Therese Nilsson
11. Conclusion
Martin Dribe, Therese Nilsson, and Anna Tegunimataka
Index
