Domestic Strategies
Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600–1800
Part of Studies in Modern Capitalism
- Editor: Stuart Woolf, University of Essex
- Date Published: December 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892339
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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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- Date Published: December 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892339
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.334kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction Stuart Woolf
2. Social relations and control of resources in an area of transit: eastern Liguria, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Osvaldo Raggio
3. Family cycles, peddling and society in upper Alpine valleys in the eighteenth century Laurence Fontaine
4. Local market rules and practices. Three guilds in the same line of production in early modern Bologna Carlo Poni
5. Group strategies and trade strategies: the Turin tailors' guild in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Simona Cerutti
6. Conceptions of poverty and poor-relief in Turin in the second half of the eighteenth century Sandra Cavallo
Index.
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