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Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1977
- Author: David Z. Levine
- Editors: Charles Tilly, Edward Shorter
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 4 5 0 5 0 - 9
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 2 6 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 0 7 5 - 4
Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism deals with the impact of early capitalism on the strategies of family formation among four sets of English villagers in the period… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFamily Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism deals with the impact of early capitalism on the strategies of family formation among four sets of English villagers in the period before the wholesale switch-over to factory industry. This era, roughly speaking from 1550 to 1850, has been variously described as ""traditional,"" ""preindustrial,"" and, more recently, ""protoindustrial."" However, the author sees it as a stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism—a halfway house. The book begins by placing the study in the context of the larger debate concerning nascent capitalism, early rural industrialization, and the growth of population. Separate chapters then discuss the growth and structure of the framework knitting industry in Shepshed and the social implications of this economic change; the patterns of immigration, population turnover, and generational replacement in Shepshed and Bottesford; and industrial involution and domestic organization in 1851. Subsequent chapters deal with the demographic implications of rural industrialization; the relationship between economic opportunity and family formation; and relationships among the expectation of marriage, bridal pregnancy, and illegitimacy.
List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 The Social and Economic Background3 Immigration, Population Turnover, and Generational Replacement4 Industrial Involution and Domestic Organization5 The Demographic Implications of Rural Industrialization6 Economic Opportunity and Family Formation: the Case of Bottesford Appendix: Crisis Mortality in Bottesford7 Colyton Revisited8 Proletarianization and Pauperism: the Case of Terling9 Illegitimacy: Marriage Frustrated, Not Promiscuity Rampant10 ConclusionAppendix: The Reliability of Parochial Registration and the Representativeness of Family ReconstitutionReferencesIndex
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1977
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124450509
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483242651
- eBook ISBN: 9781483260754
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Charles Tilly
Affiliations and expertise
University of Michigan, U.S.A.ES
Edward Shorter
Affiliations and expertise
University of Toronto, CanadaDL
David Z. Levine
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of Nephrology, University of Ottawa and Ottawa General Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada