Industrialisation and everyday life
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Industrialisation and everyday life
Cambridge University Press , Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1990
- : France
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Industrialisierung und Volksleben
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Translation of: Industrialisierung und Volksleben
Bibliography: p. 223-226
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Industrialising und Volksleben by Rudolf Braun is widely regarded as a classic of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound debates about the transition from pre-industrial society to the modern world. Utilising evidence from an upland Swiss canton, Industrialisation and Everyday Life provides a comprehensive survey of the impact upon popular life styles of the development of widespread cottage industry, as land-hungry labourers added textile manufacture to their existing agricultural concerns. Professor Braun analyses the structure of such 'proto-industry', looking at the changes wrought upon family life, domestic housing and popular culture in general. A great variety of literary and artistic sources are drawn together in a vivid portrayal of the ways in which early industrial development and social modernisation became fused together.
Table of Contents
- Prefaces
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on measures and coinage
- Introduction
- 1. The preconditions for industrialisation
- 2. Changes to the structure of family and population in the industrial regions
- 3. Life and society of the population engaged in industry
- 4. The impact of industrialisation on the house and the rural economy
- 5. Work in the putting-out industry and its effect on the life of the common people
- 6. The outworkers' attitude to poverty and crises
- 7. Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Notes
- Sources and bibliography
- Index.
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