DOMESTIC STRATEGIES by Stuart Woolf (Editor) ( 9780521391641 )

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Title:

DOMESTIC STRATEGIES
WORK AND FAMILY IN FRANCE AND ITALY, 1600-1800

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521391644

ISBN 13:

9780521391641

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

21 February, 1991

Series:

Studies in Modern Capitalism

Pages:

218

Description:

This 1991 book offers an important perspective on the working lives of European families during the early modern period and beyond.

Synopsis:

Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social sciences in recent years have stimulated a new reading of the historical sources in terms of the social relations and strategies of families in interpreting and adapting to their own use institutional settings and economic resources. The essays presented in this 1991 book explore the relationship between the historical experiences of social relations and the demands and opportunities offered by the economy in early modern Europe through a focus on the strategies of labouring families. Critical discussion of the historian's use of sources characterises the essays, which provide case-studies of social groups in north-central Italy and the French Alps. They relate to three specific themes: the exploitation of non-agricultural resources in the countryside, urban guilds and charitable provision.

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Cambridge University Press

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