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Lori A. Tremblay Sarah Reedy  Editors

The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence A Theoretical Framework for Industrial Era Inequality

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory Series Editor Debra L. Martin, Professor of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11976

Lori A. Tremblay • Sarah Reedy Editors

The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence A Theoretical Framework for Industrial Era Inequality

Editors Lori A. Tremblay School of Liberal Arts and Sciences State University of New York at Delhi Delhi, NY, USA

Sarah Reedy Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT, USA

ISSN 2567-6776     ISSN 2567-6814 (electronic) Bioarchaeology and Social Theory ISBN 978-3-030-46439-4    ISBN 978-3-030-46440-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46440-0 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

We dedicate this book to Loretta Beddow and Beatrice Tremblay, grandmothers of Lori Tremblay, and Floyd Reedy, grandfather to Sarah Reedy.

Foreword

While health disparities and the ill effects of inequality within and between populations was not invented during the Industrial Revolution, that particular era ushered in many profound and lasting changes that, while modernizing the world, contributed to human suffering and early death in very particular ways. The case studies in this volume demonstrate with empirical data sets derived from bioarchaeological investigations the ways that power structures within political-economic systems created a well-defined underclass that cross-cut age, sex, gender, nationalities, and social sta