GAZELEY, IAN; NEWELL, ANDREW - In: Economic History Review 64 (2011) 1, pp. 52-71
This article introduces a newly discovered household budget data set for 1904. We use these data to estimate urban poverty among working families in the British Isles. Applying Bowley's poverty line, we estimate that at least 23 per cent of people in urban working households and 18 per cent of...