The Standard of Living Debate: Glasgow, 1800–1850
通过分析1810–1840年实际工资指数、住房条件和死亡率等指标，发现格拉斯哥工人阶级的生活水平在19世纪上半叶并未改善，甚至恶化。
This analysis of the condition of the working classes in Glasgow in the first half of the nineteenth century is provided in two stages. An average real wage index for 1810–1840 exhibits a marked decline as a result of the high proportion of textile workers in the labor force. Quality indicators, such as housing conditions and mortality rates, deteriorated, and working-class diets at best did not improve. The evidence examined for Glasgow suggests no improvement in the standard of living of the city's working-class population.