industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional … differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain …

. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 ; Bowley … overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving …This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban working class in 1904, using a re …

overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban working class in 1904, using a re …-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find major regional differences. Scottish households were more overcrowded …

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional … differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain …

with lower and less regular incomes in places where rents are lower. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 … industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional …

deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century …

A model illustrates the intergenerational transmission of poverty through the effects of shocks to family income on …. However, policy intervention in the form of the Old Poor Law blocked the transmission of poverty and avoided permanent …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …

This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re …-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences... …