The Standard of Living of the Workers in a Spanish Industrial Town: Wages, Nutrition, Life Expentancy and Heigth in Alcoy (1870–1930)
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Title: | The Standard of Living of the Workers in a Spanish Industrial Town: Wages, Nutrition, Life Expentancy and Heigth in Alcoy (1870–1930) |
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Authors: | García Gómez, José Joaquín | Escudero, Antonio |
Research Group/s: | Internacionalización de la Empresa y Comercio Exterior |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado |
Keywords: | Industrialization | Welfare | Workers | Health reform | Spain |
Knowledge Area: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas |
Issue Date: | Nov-2018 |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Citation: | Social Indicators Research. 2018, 140(1): 347-367. doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1776-0 |
Abstract: | Many studies carried out on the evolution of the standard of living have shown that it is advisable to use several indicators as there is no single indicator that reflects all of the dimensions of well-being or that does so without incurring value judgements. Following this line of research, this study examines the well-being of the workers of Alcoy during the industrialisation process using four indicators: real wages, nutrition, life expectancy and height. As happened in other European industrialized regions some decades before, between 1870 and the end of the nineteenth century we can observe a “puzzle” as two indicators point to an increase in the standard of living and the other two reveal the opposite. The “puzzle” later disappears because from the beginning of the twentieth century to 1930 the four indicators show that well-being increased. |
Sponsor: | This work has been funded by the Ministry of Economy of the Spanish Government through the Projects HAR2014-56428-C3-1-P, HAR2014-56428-C3-2-P and by Santander Universidades through the Grants Programa Becas Iberoamérica, Jóvenes Profesores e Investigadores y Alumnos de Doctorado. Santander Universidades. España, 2014 and 2014. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/83151 |
ISSN: | 0303-8300 (Print) | 1573-0921 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-017-1776-0 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1776-0 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - Internacionalización de la Empresa y Comercio Exterior - Artículos de Revistas |
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