The Search for Wealth and Stability

Chapter 1 A Planter and His Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Chapter 2 Strategies for Development in Agriculture: The Nineteenth-century European Experience

Chapter 3 The ‘New’ Immigration and the Newest: Slavic Migrations from the Balkans to America and Industrial Europe since the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 4 Did It Fall or Was It Pushed? The Foleys and the End of the Charcoal Iron Industry in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 5 The Middle Class and the Property Cycle during the Industrial Revolution

Chapter 6 Research and Development in British Industry from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1960s

Chapter 8 Charles Booth’s Poverty Survey: Some New Approaches

Chapter 9 Social Conflict and Social Administration: The Conciliation Act in British Industrial Relations

Chapter 10 The Creation of the Disablement Rule in the Scottish Poor Law

Chapter 11 The Strange Intervention of Edward Twistleton: Paisley in Depression, 1841–3

Chapter 12 The Poor Law and Health: A Survey of Parochial Medical Aid in Glasgow, 1845–1900

Chapter 13 The Scottish Poor Law and Unemployment, 1890–1929