Housing Industrial Workers During the 19th Century: Back-to-Back Housing in Textile Lancashire

Timmins, Geoff

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“…The households at the small rural site of Tell es-Sa'idiyeh in Israel-Palestine are almost identical both in shape, size and arrangement, bringing to mind workers’ houses of Victorian period Britain (Fig. 8) (Timmins 2013). Tell es-Sa'idiyeh was part of the Kingdom of Israel during the occupation of Stratum V (Herzog 1997, 221, 232–4), alongside several other contemporary sites with relatively low Gini values such as Beer-Sheba, Tell en-Nasbeh and Tell Beit Mirsim (Herzog 1997; Herzog & Singer-Avitz 2016; Schloen 2001).…”

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Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size

Basri¹,

Lawrence²

2020

CAJ

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Investigating how different forms of inequality arose and were sustained through time is key to understanding the emergence of complex social systems. Due to its long-term perspective, archaeology has much to contribute to this discussion. However, comparing inequality in different societies through time, especially in prehistory, is difficult because comparable metrics of value are not available. Here we use a recently developed technique which assumes a correlation between household size and household wealth to investigate inequality in the ancient Near East. If this assumption is correct, our results show that inequality increased from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, and we link this increase to changing forms of social and political organization. We see a step change in levels of inequality around the time of the emergence of urban sites at the beginning of the Bronze Age. However, urban and rural sites were similarly unequal, suggesting that outside the elite, the inhabitants of each encompassed a similar range of wealth levels. The situation changes during the Iron Age, when inequality in urban environments increases and rural sites become more equal.

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Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size

Basri¹,

Lawrence²

2020

CAJ

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Revealing the widespread existence and serious adverse health consequences of low-price rental housing in urban villages in Xiamen, China

Yuan

Huo

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Xiamen, China, currently experiencing rapid development, needs to house large numbers of migrant workers who receive relatively low pay, prompting original residents in urban villages to repurpose and rebuild their original houses for low-price letting. In this conglomerate study, we firstly gauged the scale of existence of low-price rental housing (LPRH) in the city’s rental housing market and the severity of their indoor environmental deficiencies. Questionnaires were then employed to reveal the actual living experience of their renters and the consequences on their health. Finally, statistical analyses were used to find the origin of any reported health problems. It was found that partitioned rural rental housings (PRRHs), the specific type of LPRH developed in Xiamen, represented the majority of rental housing supply in most areas of the city, and that the indoor environment parameters were mostly negative, both from the on-site measurements and from renters’ experience. The sub-standard environmental parameters also showed correlational relationships to the renters’ health. This research highlights the significant presence of PRRHs in Xiamen and their disservice for renters’ health, calling governmental intervention throughout the lifetime of LPRHs in all cities including formulating adequate housing plans to house population explosions and renovating and replacing existing LPRHs.

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Between Isolation and Integration: Religion, Politics, and the Catholic Irish in Preston, C.1829-1868

Hepworth

2020

Immigrants & Minorities

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Since the 1970s, case-studies have highlighted specific local contexts which informed variegated Irish migrant experience across nineteenth-century Britain. This article scrutinises how the Catholic Irish in Preston navigated their host society. Especially in public and organisational expressions of religion and politics, the Preston Irish were unusually closely connected to their host community. Preston's unusual confessional demographics and multifaceted political contestation offered the Catholic Irish opportunities for meaningful interventions in local society. Situating this case-study comparatively, this article posits four key interlinking factors shaping migrants' experiences of a nineteenth-century town: its size, broader immigration patterns, confessional composition, and labour politics.

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Housing Industrial Workers During the 19th Century: Back-to-Back Housing in Textile Lancashire

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size

Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size

Revealing the widespread existence and serious adverse health consequences of low-price rental housing in urban villages in Xiamen, China

Between Isolation and Integration: Religion, Politics, and the Catholic Irish in Preston, C.1829-1868

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