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List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas 2. British inequality during the Industrial Revolution: accounting for the Kuznets curve Jeffrey G. Williamson 3. Wage differentials in Sweden, 1725-1950 Johan Soederberg 4. Industrial wage differentials in nineteenth-century Belgium Peter Scholliers 5. Income inequality and industrialization in Germany, 1850-1913: the Kuznets hypothesis re-examined Rolf Dumke 6. The evolution of inequality in Australia in the nineteenth century Mark Thomas 7. Gainful occupations and the inequality of pay: Vienna, 1780-1980 Michael Wagner 8. The distributional impact of the depression in the United States Ian W. McLean 9. Toward a comparative history of income and wealth inequality Peter H. Lindert References Index.