Industrialisation and everyday life

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Industrialisation and everyday life

Rudolf Braun ; translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison

Cambridge University Press , Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2005

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Industrialiserung und Volksleben

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Industrialisierung und Volksleben

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226) and index

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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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