• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Figures,
• Tables,
• Acknowledgments,
• Chapter 1: Introduction,
• Chapter 2: The Social and Economic Setting from 1750 to 1913,
• Chapter 3: Methods of Fertility Measurement,
• Chapter 4: Trends in Overall Fertility, 1841-1931,
• Chapter 5: Nuptiality Components of Fertility,
• Chapter 6: Marital and Extramarital Fertility,
• Chapter 7: Alternative "Explanatory" Models of Marital Fertility Decline,
• Chapter 8: The Social and Economic Context of Fertility Decline,
• Chapter 9: Conclusions,
• Appendix: Two Sets of County Boundaries, and Erroneous Figures for County Vital Rates in Nineteenth-Century Ireland,
• Bibliography,
• Index,

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in terms of social transformations associated with the Industrial Revolution. His book is an intensive analysis of the British case at both county and national levels.
Originally published in 1984.
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