Demographic change and industrialization in germany, 1815–1914: Bremen in Comparative Perspective

This article analyzes demographic change in Bremen 1815–1914 against the background of changing employment opportunities. Within the pre-industrial employment structure, which still prevailed in the decades after 1850, in-migrants were particularly disadvantaged. When modern industries developed, th...

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Published in:The history of the family 2000, Vol.5 (4), p.373-390
Main Authors: Lee, William Robert, Marschalck, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bremen
Comparative analysis
Demographic Change
Economic development
Employment Opportunities
Germany
Immigrants
Industrial history
Industrial structure
Industrialization
Migrants
Nineteenth Century
Social Mobility
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Summary:This article analyzes demographic change in Bremen 1815–1914 against the background of changing employment opportunities. Within the pre-industrial employment structure, which still prevailed in the decades after 1850, in-migrants were particularly disadvantaged. When modern industries developed, the situation changed. At the beginning of the twentieth century both male and female in-migrants benefited from a higher life expectancy than the city-born population had. The strong sectoral changes in employment opportunities in Bremen at the turn of the century reinforced the trends towards family limitation. More skilled in-migrants felt the need to adapt their reproductive behavior to facilitate upward social mobility. The article argues for a wider use of archival data, like those used in their study, to explore issues relating to urban demographic change in German cities during industrialization.
ISSN:1081-602X
1873-5398
DOI:10.1016/S1081-602X(00)00051-8