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Industralization, health and human welfare, in which Daniel Gallardo Albarrán, Visiting Fellow in the Department, looks at the paradox of how rising material living standards were not necessarily followed by improvements in other important aspects of life, such as workers’ health or working time; and
Beyond the male breadwinner: family living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850, by Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, and Jacob Weisdof, which considers the extent to which women's work offset deficiencies in household incomes.