Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 [Hardcover]

Grant's study is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

1. Imperial Germany as an Example of Industrialization Under Labour Surplus Conditions
2. Sources of Inequality in Rural Germany
3. The Pattern of Migration
4. Migration in Germany 1870-1913: A Statistical Analysis
5. Demography and Migration
6. Migration, Farm Size, and the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer
7. Agricultural Productivity, Labour Surplus, and Migration
8. Migration and Urban Labour Markets
9. Industrialization, Migration, and Inequality
10. Challenging the Kehrite View of Imperial Germany
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Impressive work....Economic historians need to understand this particular case and compare it to others. Grant succeeds admirably in showing that it is relevant that we characterize historical processes accurately, both to understand the past and to examine carefully how socioeconomic evolution affects later periods. --Simone A. Wegge,EH.NET