Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c 1650-1939
ISBN: 9781846313837
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Population Studies;

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 OCyPort Development and the Demographic Dynamics of European UrbanisationOCO, setting in context the individual case studies that follow. These studies OCo of Bremen, Cork, Genoa, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool, MalmA, Nantes, Portsmouth and Trieste OCo 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 emphasise the central importance of the high proportion of unskilled and casual labour, the susceptibility of cyclical employment, the inflated risk of epidemic infection, and other demographic and economic factors specific to port cities."


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