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Gabriel Brea-Martinez . Photo

Gabriel Brea-Martinez

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Gabriel Brea-Martinez . Photo

TRANSFORMACIÓN Y DESIGUALDAD ECONÓMICA EN LA INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN EN EL ÁREA DE BARCELONA, 1715-1860

Transformation and Economic Inequality in the Industrialisation of the Area of Barcelona, 1715-1860

Author

  • Gabriel Brea-Martínez
  • Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora

Summary, in English

Labour market transformation and inequality were fundamental aspects in the transition to the industrialisation. This article reconstructs the Barcelona's area economic structure across the 18th and 19th centuries through the Marriage Licences of the Barcelona's Cathedral. These documents registered a proportional tax paid by the spouses' according to their occupational and social status. Since 1780, an important decrease in the primary sector and an increase in the secondary and tertiary sectors are observed. Inequality between economic sectors rose and also within the secondary sector (textile) due to the proletarianization of the workers. Conversely, there was not an increase in inequality in the primary sector while it decreased in the tertiary sector.

Publishing year

2018-09-01

Language

Spanish

Pages

241-273

Publication/Series

Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

Volume

36

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

  • area of Barcelona
  • economic inequality
  • Industrialisation
  • occupational structure
  • proletarianization

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0212-6109