Urban Lives: An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century

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The past 200 years have witnessed revolutionary changes in living conditions for most people in the Global North. While the broad outline of these processes is well known through extensive research at the macro level, we still know very little about their micro-level foundations...