The Search for Wealth and Stability: Essays in Economic and Social History presented to M. W. Flin

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
A Planter and His Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica....Pages 1-20
Strategies for Development in Agriculture: The Nineteenth-century European Experience....Pages 21-42
The ‘New’ Immigration and the Newest: Slavic Migrations from the Balkans to America and Industrial Europe since the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 43-65
Did It Fall or Was It Pushed? The Foleys and the End of the Charcoal Iron Industry in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 67-90
The Middle Class and the Property Cycle during the Industrial Revolution....Pages 91-113
Research and Development in British Industry from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1960s....Pages 114-138
Ungentlemanly Conduct: The Control of Soccer-crowd Behaviour in England, 1888–1914....Pages 139-154
Charles Booth’s Poverty Survey: Some New Approaches....Pages 155-174
Social Conflict and Social Administration: The Conciliation Act in British Industrial Relations....Pages 175-197
The Creation of the Disablement Rule in the Scottish Poor Law....Pages 199-217
The Strange Intervention of Edward Twistleton: Paisley in Depression, 1841–3....Pages 218-242
The Poor Law and Health: A Survey of Parochial Medical Aid in Glasgow, 1845–1900....Pages 243-262
The Scottish Poor Law and Unemployment, 1890–1929....Pages 263-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-291