Coping with City Growth during the British Industrial Revolution Book

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgments;

1. Coping with city growth, past and present;
2. The urban demographic transition: births, deaths, and immigration;
3. Migrant selectivity, brain drain, and human capital transfers;
4. The demand for labor and immigrant absorption off the farm;
5. Absorbing the city immigrants;
6. The impact of the Irish on British labor markets;
7. Did British labor markets fail during the industrial revolutions?;
8. Did Britain's cities grow too fast?;
9. City housing, density, disamenities, and death;
10. Did Britain underinvest in its cities? References; Index.