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Poverty and Industrialization at the End of the “Phase-Transition†in the Czech Crown Lands

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What was the relationship between institutionalized poverty and protoindustrial activity in Bunzlau County of Bohemia at the end of the 1820s? The agriculturally weaker estates developed protoindustries and were therefore the first to institutionalize the care of the poor. Yet protoindustrial development decreased the vulnerability of those at the low end of the income distribution, although industrial activity attracted immigrants from agricultural estates. The immigrants competed for resources with the economically weak, thereby increasing the need for poor relief. On balance, however, protoindustrial activity ameliorated the lot of the destitute peasantry living in this mountainous region of northern Bohemia.

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  • Komlos, John H., 1983. "Poverty and Industrialization at the End of the “Phase-Transition†in the Czech Crown Lands," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(1), pages 129-135, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:01:p:129-135_02
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    1. Nielsen, Hana, 2021. "Coal and Sugar: The Black and White Gold of Czech Industrialization (1841-1863)," Lund Papers in Economic History 229, Lund University, Department of Economic History.

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