The Industrial City and Its People: Summary and Conclusion

Summary, in English

This chapter presents and discusses the main findings and conclusions of the volume and puts them into a broader perspective. Taken together, the different chapters contribute to closing the gap between historical studies based on parish records and contemporary research based on full-count registers or detailed surveys. The volume thereby fleshes out the narrative of twentieth-century demographic, social, and economic history by focusing on the individual level. This approach has rarely been taken in previous research over such a long period of time due to lack of high-quality micro-level data. The findings demonstrate how the behavior of individuals and families was conditioned by the larger societal transformations of the twentieth century; transformations broadly associated with industrialization, post-industrialization, and the emergence and culmination of the welfare state. The rise and fall of the industrial city had far-reaching effects on some patterns of behavior while leaving few traces in others.

• Author: Martin Dribe; Therese Nilsson; Anna Tegunimataka
• Editor: Martin Dribe; Therese Nilsson; Anna Tegunimataka
• Department/s: Department of Economic History; Centre for Economic Demography; Economic demography; Department of Economics; LU Profile Area: Human rights
• Publishing year: 2024-07-01
• Language: English
• Pages: 339-352
• Publication/Series: Urban Lives. An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197761090.003.0011
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Economic History
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9780197761090; ISBN: 9780197761113; ISBN: 9780197761120