The Chimney of the World

Mosley, Stephen

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“…This study reconciles the quantitative estimates of the costs of industrial pollution during the Industrial Revolution with the qualitative historical evidence describing the severity of the pollution problem during this period (e.g., Brimblecombe (1987), Mosley (2001),and Thorsheim (2006)) as well as with our current understanding of the substantial impacts that air pollution can have, even at the much lower concentrations experienced in modern developed economies. It also contributes to a growing set of quantitative studies examining the historical impact of coal-based air pollution.…”

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Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon¹

2016

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While the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth, there is a long debate in economics over the costs of the pollution externalities that accompanied early industrialization. To help settle this debate, this paper introduces a new theoretically-grounded strategy for estimating the impact of industrial pollution on local economic development and applies this approach to data from British cities for 1851-1911. I show that local industrial coal use substantially reduced longrun city employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use efficiency would have led to substantially higher urbanization rates in Britain by 1911.

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Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon¹

2016

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“… While there is a larger qualitative literature on this topic (Brimblecombe, ; Mosley, ; Thorsheim, ), estimates of the relationship between pollution and mortality largely begin in the middle of the twentieth century (Barreca et al ., ; Clay et al ., , ). A number of studies investigate the health impacts of particular pollution events in the twentieth century (Townsend ; Logan, ; Greenburg et al ., ; Ball, ).…”

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Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy

Beach

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2017

The Economic Journal

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Air pollution was severe in the nineteenth century, yet its health consequences are often overlooked due to a lack of pollution data. We offer a new approach for inferring local coal use levels based on local industrial structure and industry-specific coal use intensity. This allows us to provide the first estimates of the mortality effects of British industrial coal use in 1851-60. Exploiting wind patterns for identification, we find that a one standard deviation increase in coal use raised infant mortality by 6-8% and that industrial coal use explains roughly one-third of the urban mortality penalty observed during this period.

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“…The initial enthusiasm was not maintained. 13 As with the Manchester and Salford Police Act, Taylor's Act, which was the first national legislation concerning smoke abatement, triggered court cases in some towns, especially in Yorkshire. 14 In addition, most industrial towns had at least one or two manufacturers who introduced the technology in the 1820s.…”

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The introduction of the steam press: a court case on smoke and noise nuisances in a London mansion, 1824

Kasuga

2014

Urban History

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It has recently been revealed that English common law played a certain role in dealing with the pollution problems that accompanied industrialization. This article explores the role of legal actions in solving environmental problems, not within a legal theory but in a larger framework of environmental politics. By focusing on legal actions, it is shown that the Act on Smoke Abatement of 1821 triggered smoke and noise nuisance lawsuits in London, especially against printers. The introduction of the steam press not only contributed to the production of cheap prints but also transformed the printing business into a polluting industry. Legal actions could sometimes remove a polluting business from a plaintiff's neighbourhood, though it also raised the problem of environmental inequality.

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The Chimney of the World

Cited by 17 publications

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Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy

The introduction of the steam press: a court case on smoke and noise nuisances in a London mansion, 1824

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