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Glasgow
Glasgow City
Glasgow Fair
Glasgow Green
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Glasgow working class
housing conditions nineteenth century
industrial revolution Britain
industrialisation in Scotland
labour movement analysis
Lodging Houses
Male Female Ratio
Nineteenth Century Glasgow
nineteenth century Glasgow working class life
North British Daily Mail
Parliamentary Burgh
Parochial Board
Penny Theatres
People's Palace
People’s Palace
Poor Relief
Poor Relief Administration
poverty relief systems
Scottish Poor Law
social economic history
social history Scotland
St Andrews Street
St Rollox
textile and engineering industries
Town's Hospital
Town’s Hospital
United Scotsmen
urban public health
Working Class Liberals
working class politics
Working Men
Young Men
Zymotic Diseases
Product details
- ISBN 9781032069401
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1987, this book examines how much industrialisation improved the standard of living of the British worker, based on the experience of one representative city: Glasgow. It analyses whether there was an increase in skilled as opposed to unskilled labour in major industrial centres – as for example in Glasgow, manufacturing shifted from textiles to engineering. Other important issues such as the rate of housing construction, public health, local politics and leisure pursuits are also considered. Glasgow has a long history of working-class culture and is therefore a particularly interesting city to study.
R. A. Cage was Head of the Department of Economic History at the University of New England, Australia.
