Download or read book Migration and Urbanization in the Ruhr Valley written by James Harvey Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the human consequences of urbanization and geographical mobility for residents of a major city in the Ruhr Valley of Germany during the century-long transition from an agrarian order to the industrial era. By utilizing an un-precidented combination of demographic records, it reshapes the conventional understanding of central European migration.