EMIGRATION AND THE STANDARD-OF-LIVING - THE 17TH-CENTURY CHESAPEAKE

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: CARR, LG
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700010731
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 271-291
• 关键词: industrial-revolution; maryland

摘要

Seventeenth-century English immigrants to the Chesapeake and their children experienced a trade-off. They died early and raised few children who survived to adulthood, most worked harder than in England at more boring tasks, and, except for food, they had a material standard of living inferior to what the homeland could offer at equivalent levels of wealth; but people ate well, there was work for all, and until late in the century the poor who lived long enough found opportunities not available in England to exercise control of their lives-opportunities to acquire land and the economic independence and community standing that it brought.