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Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900

Door K.D.M. Snell

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#349283-VF39
Titel
Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900
Auteur
Snell, K.D.M.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1987
ISBN10
0521335582
ISBN13
9780521335584
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 2.
Samenvatting
These essays are concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines an understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis.

This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of sources, and its particular significance arises from the pioneering use made of a largely neglected archival source - settlement records - to address questions of central importance in English social and economic history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Levels of... (Lees verder) employment, wage rates, poor relief, the sexual division of labour, the social consequences of enclosure, the decline of farm service and traditional apprenticeship, and th equality of family life are amongst the issues discussed in a profound re-assessment of a perennial problem: the standard of living (in its widest sense) of the labouring poor during the period of industrialisation. The author's conclusions challenge much of the prevailing orthodoxy, and his extensive use of literary and attitudinal material is closely integrated with the quantitative restatement of an interpretation that owes much to the older tradition of the Hammonds' Village Labourer.
Pagina's
464
Conditie
Goed — Spine slightly discoloured.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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