'The heart and home of horror': The great London fogs of the late nineteenth century

Luckin, Bill

doi:10.1080/0141987032000040189

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“…Industrialised Britain was the centre of an empire on which the sun never rose. Luckin (2003) (Luckin, 2003). Over a century later the 'great smog' of 1952 caused 4,000 deaths in Greater London (Sheail, 2002, p. 44).…”

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“…Industrialised Britain was the centre of an empire on which the sun never rose. Luckin (2003) has charted how, from the 1840s, reformers employed cost estimation to place monetary values on the social and environmental impacts of smoke fog in London. Narrative reporting also featured.…”

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“…Estimations included the costs of washing clothes, lost wages through illness, burning domestic fuel to keep warm in low sunlight and damage to buildings and plants. Further, the associated discourses offered insights to Victorian Social Darwinism, urban-rural distinctions, power relations and the pervasiveness of class: "These cost-accounting exercises focused intensively on the needs of the middle and 'respectable' working classes and paid little attention to the lives of the London poor" (Luckin, 2003). Over a century later the "great smog" of 1952 caused 4,000 deaths in Greater London (Sheail, 2002, p. 44).…”

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Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Walker

2008

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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Purpose-The paper seeks to review the accounting history content of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ) over the last 20 years and to identify distinctive research themes therein. Observations and suggestions are offered in relation to future accounting history research. Design/methodology/approach-The study comprises an analysis of the content of AAAJ and related literature. Findings-Histories appearing in AAAJ have focussed on technical issues, accounting in business organisations, cost and management accounting, accounting historiography, professionalisation, and socio-cultural studies of accounting. The journal has been an important medium for the pursuit of interdisciplinarity, the promotion and practical application of new research methods, methodological pluralism, and searches for convergence in historical debates. Research limitations/implications-The paper discusses the potential for advancing established research agendas in accounting history and identifies some new subjects for investigation by accounting historians. Originality/value-It is suggested that while methodological innovation and plurality are to be applauded the sustained application of new approaches should also receive greater encouragement. Searches for rapprochement in accounting history debate run the risk of stultifying historical controversy. It is argued that histories of management accounting, gender, class, professionalisation are far from 'complete' and should be reignited through the adoption of broader theoretical, temporal and spatial parameters. An emphasis on the performative aspects of accounting in socio-cultural histories is encouraged as is clearer recognition of significance of contemporary understandings of the boundaries of accounting. Also emphasised is the desirability of more indigenously sensitised histories of the profession, greater engagement with the 'literary turn', and a renewed commitment to interdisciplinarity.

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Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Walker

2008

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“…How did it affect social environment and individuals' life strategies? Acceleration in technological innovations and the associated economic growth during the post-Industrial Revolution period resulted in environmental pollution (Luckin 2003;Thorsheim 2007), higher rates of birth (Komlos 1990), and an increase in economic inequality (Jackson 2010), which may in turn have led to adoption of fast life history strategies. Thus, life history is dynamic in nature and should be altered in response to environmental changes.…”

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The affective origins of the Industrial Revolution

Huntsinger

Raoul

2019

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“…How did it affect social environment and individuals’ life strategies? Acceleration in technological innovations and the associated economic growth during the post-Industrial Revolution period resulted in environmental pollution (Luckin 2003; Thorsheim 2007), higher rates of birth (Komlos 1990), and an increase in economic inequality (Jackson 2010), which may in turn have led to adoption of fast life history strategies. Thus, life history is dynamic in nature and should be altered in response to environmental changes.…”

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Environmental unpredictability, economic inequality, and dynamic nature of life history before, during, and after the Industrial Revolution

Chen

Han

2019

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It is emphasized that environmental predictability is another important condition that plays roles in slow strategies that are related to innovation; that economic inequality, except as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, influences innovation; and that switching global life history from a slow to a fast strategy is a response adopted in response to new challenges during the post-Industrial Revolution period.

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'The heart and home of horror': The great London fogs of the late nineteenth century

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

The affective origins of the Industrial Revolution

Environmental unpredictability, economic inequality, and dynamic nature of life history before, during, and after the Industrial Revolution

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