Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600–1800 (Studies in Modern Capitalism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521391644 ISBN 13: 9780521391641

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Domestic Strategies, first published in 1991, offers a reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of labouring families towards the organisation of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe.

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"[T]hose interested in families' strategies towards work and social institutions--whether guilds, charitable organizations, or municipal authorities--will find much good material in this volume." Judy Coffin, Journal of Economic History

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521391644
• ISBN 13: 9780521391641
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
• Herausgeber: Woolf Stuart