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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521391644 ISBN 13: 9780521391641

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Domestic Strategies offers a new reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of laboring families toward the organization of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe. In contrast to many other works, the essays in Domestic Strategies place laboring families as the actors on the historical scene, rather than as passive recipients of historical changes. Conceptual insights derived from both anthropology (Sahlins and Geertz) and sociology (Bourdieu, Elias and Mary Douglas) are applied to individual case studies of social groups from north-central Italy and the French Alps, and the whole offers an important new perspective on the working lives of European families during the early modern period and beyond.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

Review:

"[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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521391644
• ISBN 13: 9780521391641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Woolf Stuart