HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL 1600-2000 by Lawrence Fontaine (Editor), Jurgen Schlumbohm (Editor) ( 9780521001427 )

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HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL 1600-2000
FISSION, FACTION AND COOPERATION

By:

Lawrence Fontaine (Editor), Jurgen Schlumbohm (Editor)

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0521001420

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9780521001427

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 February, 2001

Series:

International Review of Social History Supplements No. 8

Pages:

200

Description:

Considers the 'labouring poor' as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival.

Synopsis:

In pre-industrial Europe, as in developing countries today, much of the population had to struggle to survive. The livelihood of all those who lived by the work of their hands was highly insecure. This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. These strategies included many economic activities. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. Sometimes, strategies were successfully integrated within a household, while in other instances the domestic group was split and members preferred to pursue individual strategies. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.

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