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- Title
What can we learn from a race with one runner? A comment on Foreman‐Peck and Zhou, 'Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England'.
- Authors
Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh
- Abstract
Foreman‐Peck and Zhou's claim that late marriage was a major contributor to the industrial revolution in England cannot be sustained. They consider neither other influences on English industrialization nor other European economies where marriage age was high throughout the early modern period but industrialization came much later. It is not possible to argue that late marriage age was a major contributor to English industrialization without analysing other possible contributing factors. Any consideration of this question must assess marriage age alongside other causes of industrialization and explain why other European economies with a higher marriage age industrialized much later than England.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MARRIAGE age; INDUSTRIAL revolution; FOREMAN-Peck, James; PENG Zhou; SOCIAL conditions of women; BRITISH history
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 4, p1439
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ehr.12785