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Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two Nineteenth-Century New England Towns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Susan I. Hautaniemi ,
Alan C. Swedlund  and
Douglas L. Anderton
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Recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the factors associated with the American epidemiological transition in the late nineteenth century. However, uncertainty remains regarding the impact on mortality of specific changes ancillary to urbanization and industrialization in American cities and towns. The broad objective of the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project is to examine changing relationships between socioeconomic status, the rise of new urban-industrial communities, and cause-specific mortality trends during the rapid development of New England manufacturing. To address these issues, the present analysis examines two emergent urban centers in Massachusetts, adopting a micro-demographic approach to explore late-nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century determinants of mortality.

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Social Science History , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 1999 , pp. 1 - 39
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1999

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