Author : Richard Lawton,W. Robert Lee
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853234353
Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, C.1650-1939 by Richard Lawton,W. Robert Lee Pdf
This volume brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter Lawton and Lee examine "Port Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European Urbanisation", setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies – of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, Malmö, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste – provide an important enhancement of our understanding of the particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of port cities, and point to the existence of a particular port demographic regime. They emphasize the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labor, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities.