Industrialisation and Everyday Life
Industrialisation and Everyday Life
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.
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March 2005Paperback
9780521619295
244 pages
234 × 156 × 13 mm
0.35kg
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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.
