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Rebellious Families : Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Paperback / softback Book

Rebellious Families : Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries Paperback / softback

Edited by Jan Kok

Part of the International Studies in Social History series

Paperback / softback

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Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years.

It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research.

However, in most cases the research has focused on what people do if they rebel but hardly ever, why they rebel. The essays in this volume offer an alternative perspective, based on the question at what point families decided to add collective action to their repertoires of survival strategies, In this way this volume opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labour and family history.

The authors offer fascinating case studies in several countries spanning over four continents during the last two centuries.

In an extensive introduction the relevant literature on households and collective action is discussed, and the volume is rounded off by a conclusion that provides methodological and theoretical suggestions for the further exploration of this new field in social history.

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